Stephen, On Saturday 23 April 2005 04:52, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just upgraded my linux machines to 9.3 via new installation and have several questions/problems.
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I replaced hda with a 120GB HD to have a printine machine for the new installation, but the installer only found 110.8GB. What happened to the missing 9.2GB?
The 120GB advertised capacity of the drive is to be interpreted as 120,000,000,000 bytes. In computerists units a "kilo" (K) is 1024, a "mega" is 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 and a "giga" (G) is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824. Dividing 120,000,000,000 by 1073741824 gives 111.759. I'm not sure about the remaining gigabyte (it could be lost to formatting overhead or reserved for something internal to the drive's operation such as bad block remapping), but basically nothing's wrong.
Of a more serious nature is the fact that I have three hard drives on the tower machine. The fstab shows the following:
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When I installed v9.0 the installer found /dev/hdb3 which is formatted as a reiser file system and a number of vfat partitions which were also on hdb. Now, I didn't touch either hdb or hdc so how do I access those drives and partitions?
Add the relevant entries to your /etc/fstab.
In general, I am pleased so far.
Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Randall Schulz