Re: cfdisk hates me ("FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk"
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Jens, do you think it would be a good idea to try to fill my hard drive, so
> that if things do start dissapearing, it is when I expect them to, rather
> than .. some time in the future, when I likely forget about the problem?
Yeah, that's not a bad strategy. At least then you'd know. You can try:
yes > yesfile.txt
I guess files can only be 2GB so you might have to do it a couple times.
> On the otherhand, I would expect e2fs to throw things mostly randomly on the
> drive, so I would think that it would have tried to store things beyond the
> edge already? Or isthat a recipe for fragmentation, and hence e2fs does its
> best to NOT throw things on the drive randomly....
I wish I could give you a definitive answer. It is also my _belief_ that e2fs puts things
all over on the drive and thus you would've hit a non-existent spot already if there was one
but I really am not sure.
> Thanks Jens! :)
Sure. Let me know what you find out (and please copy to my own email since sometimes I miss
things on the list--I almost missed this post). Good luck.
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:06:28PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > Hopefully this isn't bad (what would make it no bad? oooh is this complicated, see doc
> > reference below). I also have one of these IBM disks which reports itself as being
> > 8GB. If things are working for you then that's great. I'm currently only using 8GB of
> > mine for this same reason.
> >
> > Why does the disk report itself as being 8GB? Because 8GB is the absolute limit which
> > is addressable using c/h/s as reported by INT 13 (1024 cylinders, 256 heads, 63
> > sectors). With LBA (logical block address) up to 137GB may be addressed. This answer
> > I'm sure raises more questions. The topic is a long and sordid piece of PC history.
> > There's an extensive doc on the subject at
> > ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/faqs/bios.faq. Note that this document is a bit dated
> > and PC bioses have changed since the time of its writing.
> >
> > Seth R Arnold wrote:
> >
> > > Hey guys. I am a bit worried.
> > >
> > > cfdisk gives me this error:
> > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk
> > >
> > > I, being one of the sort-of-cautious type, am scared.
> > >
> > > Here is a nice little output from df:
> > > amidala:/home/sarnold/redwood# df
> > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda6 13411348 1103240 11610889 9% /
> > > /dev/hda1 31077 1348 28125 5% /boot
> > >
> > > This is an ibm 14.4 gb hdd.
> > >
> > > From my /var/log/messages file:
> > > Sep 6 23:00:22 amidala kernel: hda: IBM-DTTA-371440, 7559MB w/462kB Cache,
> > > CHS=1757/255/63
> > >
> > > Since things mostly worked, and still mostly work, I sort of ignored this.
> > >
> > > Was this a Very Dumb Thing To Do?
> > >
> > > Please help me understand this. :)
> >
> > --
> > Jens B. Jorgensen
> > jjorgens@bdsinc.com
> >
>
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