Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday 27 September 2007 16:03, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Wait a second...
Per hdparm -I /dev/sda, my drive only has 312518818 sectors, so why is Linux even trying to read sector 312518818?
Linux accepts the size you specify when you format a file system. When doing so, it is unlikely to need to read that sector, only include it's index in a free block. Only when the demand for free blocks causes that block to be allocated will the drive be asked to read or write it.
We don't normally specify a size: we tell mkfs to do its job and it does it, automatically. -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from RC1) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org