Why would you possibly want to size a partition with byte accuracy? Are you short on disk space or something??
Anyway, normally, the disk sector is the smallest unit of currency so that's 512 bytes. Also, many OS's operate to the nearest disk cylinder.
Usually, if a filesystem fills up you are stuffed and need to expand it. Depending on what disk/filesystem you are running that could prove labor intensive unless you are running a OS that allows you to expand a filesystem easily. You normally need to leave good headroom to ensure the filesystem doesn't fill.
It has to do with my cloning efforts with
and disk mirroring. I believe when creating a mirror, the slices have to be precise and I'm about to format a drive for it.
hi,
1) is logical partition the same as physical partition except that one is physical and the other is logical?
2) then it must a one to one ratio? (3 Replies)
Can someone tell me how to read these damn sizes.
i mean, i prefer to see sizes in MB but that is not the case when you do an ls -l on directories. i have a had time converting these to MB
just for verification purposes, what would a directory size like this = 3499990308 represent in MB
or... (3 Replies)
I've created a partition with GNU Parted, how do I mount the partition?
The manual information at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html is good, but I am sure about how I mount the partition afterwards.
Thanks,
--Todd (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
can anybody help me in finding a way to obtain a list of all the directories and their sizes.
I would like to be able to run this and obtain an output like a tree structure with each branch saying how much space it is taking up .
Hope you can point me in the right direction.... (1 Reply)
Gentleman,
Please move if I have chose the incorrect forum section. I am trying to move data that is not backed up from partition 1 to partition 2 on a SAN that has a GFS2 filesystem. Since the data is not backed up I am rsyncing this data and once verified I will delete from the source... (6 Replies)
Is it better to use df or du to calculate directory sizes? I tried both and got different numbers with both.
$ du -h /home
1.7G /home/bob1
1.7G /home
$ df -h /home
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VG-lv_home
25G 1.9G 22G ... (2 Replies)
I am planning to install slack 13.37 on an old stand-alone PIII (512 mb ram) with 17 gb disk space. I need to keep lotsa pdf, chm type e-books for programming with few other misc. documents.
I'm going to use this system for my personal use.
It has no network but I browse internet with cable... (0 Replies)
hi all
while formatting hard disk i am getting following error.
Partition 1 ends at 266338338
It must be between 34 and 143374704.
label error: EFI Labels do not support overlapping partitions
Partition 8 overlaps partition 1.
Warning: error writing EFI.
Label failed.
I have formatted the... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts
I would like to know different between soft partition concept and hard partition concept on solaris.
Here is little explanation between soft partition concept and hard partition concept on solaris.
Soft Partition:
1TB total space available in storage in all mapped to the OS to... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a Red Hat Linux 5.9 Server installed with one hard disk & 2 Partitions created on it as follows,
/boot - Linux Partition & another is
LVM - One VG & under that 5-6 Logical volumes(var,opt,home etc).
Here my requirement is to take out 1GB of space from LVM ( Any logical... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gr8_usk
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
partitio
PARTITION(8) System Manager's Manual PARTITION(8)NAME
partition - make a partition table
SYNOPSIS
partition [-mf] device [type:]size[+*] ...
DESCRIPTION
Partition makes a partition table on device using the types and sizes given. It may be used in combination with repartition(8) for auto-
matic installation of Minix.
You may give up to four type:size[+*] specifications for the partitions. You may also specify holes before, between, and after the parti-
tions. A hole differs from a partition specification by not having a type.
The first hole is by default 1 sector to make space for the primary bootstrap and the partition table. The other holes are 0.
The type field is the type of the partitition in hexadecimal. The size field is the partition's size in sectors. The + or * may option-
ally be added to indicate that the partition must be expanded to contain any leftover space on the device or to mark the partition active.
Partitions are padded out to cylinder boundaries, except for the first one, it starts on track 1. Some operating systems care about this.
Minix and MS-DOS do not.
OPTIONS -m Minix only, no need to pad partitions. This is the default for subpartition tables.
-f Force making a partition table even if the device is too small.
EXAMPLE
partition /dev/hd0 01:16384 81:40000 81:2880* 06:20000+
Partitions disk 0 into an 8 Mb DOS partition, 20 Mb Minix /usr, 1.44 Mb Minix / (active), and a DOS partition of at least 10 Mb at the end
of the disk. (06:0+ would have been ok too, it's just a sanity check.)
SEE ALSO hd(4), part(8), repartition(8).
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
PARTITION(8)