As long as there are no overlapping areas, that doesn't matter.
If your SSD is a $500k house, these gaps sum up to less than two tenth of a cent...
Hahaha jlliagre, nice analogy..
Thank for your reply. I am just wondering why are these sectors distributed in such way and how they sums up.
Last question i hope you don't mind, since these are 4k disks, is there any reason why ZFS are aligning them with start sector 256 ? instead of the default 40 ?
First post :) ...
Here is a script for automatic labeling of previously unlabeled disks.
Other methods exist (format -f cmd_file), but I like this because it's all in one place.
#!/bin/ksh
#----------------------
# format_label
# Automatic labeling of previously unlabeled disks
#... (1 Reply)
Is there a way to determine the number of available spare sectors on a disk ? as it may be useful for notifying a user to take a backup of the disk before it runs into a medium error. (6 Replies)
Hello, I need advice on how to check if started processes are finished in perl, here's explanation :
OS is RHEL 4, perl -v = "This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi"
The logic of the script :
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
$param1 = $ARGV;
$param2 = $ARGV;
$param3 =... (2 Replies)
I found a document: Bad block HOWTO for smartmontools
My hard drive is Maxtor:
root]# fdisk -lu /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3f4e3f4d
... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it... (23 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
i'm writing some code to simulate the boot progress after power on
but when i try to read the 2nd sector from a floppy disk, this operation always fail with ah=0x80h which means timeout, how can i get over this problem?
my code would be like this:
$ cat boot.S
.code16
#define SETUPLEN 4... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: wljackhero
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
efi_mkdir
efi_mkdir(1M)efi_mkdir(1M)NAME
efi_mkdir - make an EFI directory
SYNOPSIS
devicefile] dirname
DESCRIPTION
makes an EFI directory.
The EFI file system is based on the FAT file system and used by the Itanium-based system BIOS to locate an HP-UX bootloader. See efi(4).
creates directory dirname in the EFI volume specified by devicefile. If dirname already exists, exits with a diagnostic message, and the
directory is not changed. If more than one subdirectory needs to be created to make dirname, exits with a diagnostic message and the
directory is not changed, unless the option is specified. dirname should be relative to the root of the EFI volume specified by device-
file, not to an HP-UX file system.
Options
Options can be used singly or combined in any order before the file names. The space between option and argument is optional.
devicefile is the device special file of the EFI file system where the directory is to be made. Without the option, uses the device
file specified in the environment variable if it is defined. The option overrides the environment variable.
Create intermediate directories as necessary.
RETURN VALUE
returns exit code 0 if the directory is made successfully. Otherwise it prints a diagnostic message and returns nonzero.
0 Successful completion.
>0 Error condition occurred.
EXAMPLES
Create directory in device file which contains an EFI file system:
Create a directory in device file which contains an EFI file system, when does not exist yet:
Create a directory in persistent device file (see intro(7)), which contains an EFI file system, when does not exist yet:
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO efi_cp(1M), efi_fsinit(1M), efi_ls(1M), efi_rm(1M), efi_rmdir(1M), efi(4), intro(7).
Itanium(R)-based Systems Only efi_mkdir(1M)