[578] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Fri Sep 1 19:40:38 1995
To: Jason Duerstock <jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu>
cc: Evan Willett <willett@coam.usm.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Sep 1995 00:40:06 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 09:17:21 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <Pine.3.89.9509010054.B4500-0100000@kendall.mdcc.edu>, jduersto@kend
all.mdcc.edu writes:
>On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Evan Willett wrote:
>
>> I have 9GB seagate, which works fine with the 1542CF, but any SCSI
>> supported by linux should work.
>>
>> With fdisk v2.0a, I'm only able to use 8064 cylinders(about 8.3GB) of
>> the 8669 cylinders. Any ideas on utilizing all of the disk space?
>
>If you're going to use the entire drive for linux, I don't see why you
>can't just "mke2fs /dev/sdb" and use the whole thing without a partition
>table. I posted a message about it before and nobody came up with any
>reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be done.
You couldn't boot from it, would have one Big Fat Honkin partition
instead of multiple slices which are more desireable (to prevent
fragmentation on the main filesystme for instance, log files from
overflowing, etc), etc.
