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 DEBIAN
mkfs.exfat
MKEXFATFS(8) System Manager's Manual MKEXFATFS(8)NAME
mkexfatfs - create an exFAT file system
SYNOPSIS
mkexfatfs [ -i volume-id ] [ -n volume-name ] [ -p partition-first-sector ] [ -s sectors-per-cluster ] [ -v ] device
DESCRIPTION
mkexfatfs creates an exFAT file system on a block device. device is a special file corresponding to the device.
OPTIONS
Command line options available:
-i volume-id
A 32-bit hexadecimal number. By default a value based on current time is set.
-n volume-name
Volume name (label), up to 15 characters. By default no label is set.
-p partition-first-sector
First sector of the partition starting from the beginning of the whole disk. exFAT super block has a field for this value but in
fact it's optional and does not affect anything. Default is 0.
-s sectors-per-cluster
Number of physical sectors per cluster (cluster is an allocation unit in exFAT). Must be a power of 2, i.e. 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. Cluster
size can not exceed 32 MB. Default cluster sizes are: 4 KB if volume size is less than 256 MB, 32 KB if volume size is from 256 MB
to 32 GB, 128 KB if volume size is 32 GB or larger.
-v Print version and copyright.
EXIT CODES
Zero is returned on successful creation. Any other code means an error.
AUTHOR
Andrew Nayenko
SEE ALSO mkfs(8)
January 2011 MKEXFATFS(8)