Re: [Nolug] kernel 2.2.20 and 137+ GB disks

From: Andrew S. Johnson <andy_at_asjohnson.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:24:04 -0600
Message-Id: <200310301724.04036.andy@asjohnson.com>

On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:35 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I get such a big drive, can I install to the "lower rungs", and
> then, once I install kernel 2.4.22, make use of the rest of the disk?

I don't know which kernel version support for ATA/133 was added,
but it does work with 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test9:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 46.1 GB, 46103371776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5605 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 459 3686886 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 460 1071 4915890 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 1072 1075 32130 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1076 5605 36387225 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1076 1139 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1140 1280 1132551 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 1281 1790 4096543+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1791 1918 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1919 1982 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 1983 5605 29101716 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hde: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 1 19929 160079661 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdi: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdi1 1 196 1574338+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdi2 197 9729 76573822+ 83 Linux

Notice that the 160 GB drive is one BAFS:

$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 497829 189704 282423 41% /
/dev/hda3 31111 5746 23759 20% /boot
/dev/hda7 3968092 2957688 805580 79% /usr
/dev/hda8 995864 667804 276656 71% /tmp
/dev/hda9 497829 37522 434605 8% /var
/dev/hda10 28644880 23739776 3450020 88% /opt
/dev/hde1 157566568 77045364 72517224 52% /home
/dev/hda1 3679680 477104 3202576 13% /mnt/win98c

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh....... A little elbow room.

No, the 80 gig drive isn't mounted. I mount it to do backups whenever.

Andy

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