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 BSD
diskpart
DISKPART(8) System Manager's Manual DISKPART(8)NAME
diskpart - calculate default disk partition sizes
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/diskpart [ -p ] [ -d ] disk-type
DESCRIPTION
Diskpart is used to calculate the disk partition sizes based on the default rules used at Berkeley. If the -p option is supplied, tables
suitable for inclusion in a device driver are produced. If the -d option is supplied, an entry suitable for inclusion in the disk descrip-
tion file /etc/disktab is generated; c.f. disktab(5). On disks that use bad144-style bad-sector forwarding, space is left in the last
partition on the disk for a bad sector forwarding table. The space reserved is one track for the replicated copies of the table and suffi-
cient tracks to hold a pool of 126 sectors to which bad sectors are mapped. For more information, see bad144(8).
The disk partition sizes are based on the total amount of space on the disk as given in the table below (all values are supplied in units
of 512 byte sectors). The `c' partition is, by convention, used to access the entire physical disk. The device driver tables include the
space reserved for the bad sector forwarding table in the `c' partition; those used in the disktab and default formats exclude reserved
tracks. In normal operation, either the `g' partition is used, or the `d', `e', and `f' partitions are used. The `g' and `f' partitions
are variable-sized, occupying whatever space remains after allocation of the fixed sized partitions. If the disk is smaller than 20
Megabytes, then diskpart aborts with the message ``disk too small, calculate by hand''.
Partition 20-60 MB 61-205 MB 206-355 MB 356+ MB
a 15884 15884 15884 15884
b 10032 33440 33440 66880
d 15884 15884 15884 15884
e unused 55936 55936 307200
h unused unused 291346 291346
If an unknown disk type is specified, diskpart will prompt for the required disk geometry information.
SEE ALSO disktab(5), bad144(8)BUGS
Certain default partition sizes are based on historical artifacts (e.g. RP06), and may result in unsatisfactory layouts.
When using the -d flag, alternate disk names are not included in the output.
4th Berkeley Distribution November 17, 1996 DISKPART(8)