Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 December 2008 20:53:47 Paul Hartman wrote: > Yes, in English "must" can also mean that you infer or presume > something. s/presume/assume/ (Not the same meaning, in spite of popular misuse.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: 1 a: be commanded or requested to b: be urged to : ought by all means to 2: be compelled by physical necessity to : be required by immediate or future need or purpose to 3 a: be obliged to : be compelled by social considerations to b: be required by law, custo

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:13:11 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > So, instead of "your kernel must not be 64bits", maybe it > > would have been clearer to say "I suspect you are not using a 64-bit > > kernel; if you were, it would not have this problem". :) > > So can "your kernel must not..." be u

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: >> Yes, in English "must" can also mean that you infer or presume >> something. > > Ah, yes. I remember :-) > >> So, instead of "your kernel must not be 64bits", maybe it >> would

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Yes, in English "must" can also mean that you infer or presume > something. Ah, yes. I remember :-) > So, instead of "your kernel must not be 64bits", maybe it > would have been clearer to say "I suspect you are not using a 64-bit > k

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: >> > > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. >>

must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: > > > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. > > > > Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: > > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. > > Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? > > Bye... > > Dirk the option is not available with 64bits - maybe not needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. Why not is he not allowed to run a 64bit kernel? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-19 Thread Shaochun Wang
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:45:58PM +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi Dirk, > > Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > > Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? > > thanks a lot! > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. -- Shaochun Wang Jabber: fung...@jabber.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Dirk, Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? thanks a lot! Best regards, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008 18:15:11 schrieb Matthias Fechner: > The raid should have a nice of 3TB and not 747GB. > Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? Kernel w/o CONFIG_LBD? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size

2008-12-18 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, I created today a raid5 with three 1.5TB harddisks. What I did: 1. created partitions on every harddisk with type 0xfd, fdisk says: Platte /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GByte, 1500301910016 Byte 255 K?pfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 182401 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 ? 512 = 8225280 Bytes Disk identi