On Friday 03 April 2015 16:37:51 Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Apr 2015 at 15:37:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 14:50:04 Brian wrote: > > > Either there is FREE SPACE or there isn't. If there is none you > > > cannot install anything to that disk. What did you get? You didn't > > > say, so now we are left wondering how you dealt with that > > > situation.
Since when did disks become one time use devices? None that I have are. If its already full, you just tell the partitioner to use it all, problem solved. > > > If it were me and there was no free space, I would delete that > > > partition and go from there. > > > > Isn't use whole disk the equ? > I do not understand 'equ' Sorry Brian, that is generally shorthand for "equivalent", aka the same thing. IOW nothing precious on this disk, over write whats already there. > You didn't answer the "What did you get?" question in my previous > mail quoted above. > > On the 'Partition disks' page there is a list of the disks on your > system. SCSI1 etc. What does it say for 'FREE SPACE' in the fourth > column for the disk you are installing to? Usually less than 4 megabytes of free space left at the end of the disk with a used 4k per sector disk on the cable, but could be zero for a 512 byte per sector used disk since there is not normally an alignment problem with the old 512 byte per sector formatting. I have 1Tb disks that look alike at first glance. The 512 byte per sector pair is heavier and a wee bit thicker because it likely has two platters in it, while the 4k version pair is a bit lighter and thinner, I presume because there is only one platter in those two disks. The commodity drives I have coming will be, at 2Tb, 4096 bytes per sector, and linux must align its writes with a Read-Modify-Write cycle updating the whole 4k just to change one byte if things don't start on a sector boundary. There's a pretty good speed penalty for doing that. A disk that can write at 120+ megs a second when aligned can be turned into a 20 megs a second slowpoke. if miss-aligned. Ain't technology wonderful when it advances faster than ones legs can walk? Before you know it, it will be Sir Arther C. Clarks definition of magic. ;-) Thanks Brian. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
