Re: wrong disk size

2017-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
el Sieb" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: wrong disk size > > On 07/16/2017 07:53 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > My 500 Go disk has shrunk to 31.5 G! > > We really need more info than this. What is the device? What command > are you running? >

Re: wrong disk size

2017-07-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 07/16/2017 07:53 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: My 500 Go disk has shrunk to 31.5 G! We really need more info than this. What is the device? What command are you running? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: wrong disk size

2017-07-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 07/16/2017 09:36 AM, Greg Woods wrote: I have heard that there are flash drives on the market that report much higher capacity than they really have. You can build a file system on them and it all looks good; "df" and friends show the claimed capacity. But as soon as you put enough data on t

Re: wrong disk size

2017-07-16 Thread Greg Woods
I have heard that there are flash drives on the market that report much higher capacity than they really have. You can build a file system on them and it all looks good; "df" and friends show the claimed capacity. But as soon as you put enough data on the drive to exceed the real capacity, your dat

wrong disk size

2017-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, My 500 Go disk has shrunk to 31.5 G! Failed to read extended partition table (offset=196141056): Invalid argument Disk /dev/sdc: 31.5 GiB, 33820284928 bytes, 66055244 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optim

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-25 Thread lee
Paul Smith writes: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: >>> Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? >>> >>> I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some >>> people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk >>> of

Re: disk size

2013-06-24 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:52:24AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > How can I see the total disk size of my hard disk? > > I have used the following command: > > # fdisk -l | grep Disk > Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors > Disk identifier: 0x0003dd

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-24 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/21/2013 04:16 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? > > I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some > people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk > of at most 1 T. Are they correct? >

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.06.2013 14:50, schrieb Tim: >> which has nothing to do with *a disk* larger than 1 TB >> it's more depending on the partitions you create > > It has an awful lot to do with such large discs. What's the default > partitioning for Windows? One partition that covers the entire drive who ca

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-23 Thread poma
On 23.06.2013 15:24, Dave Ihnat wrote: … > Enough pre-coffee pontificating. … Try again after the cafe break. :) poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fe

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-23 Thread Dave Ihnat
Ok, folks, I just want to inject some bit of reality here. I've started working on Unix internals in 1980, and have worked ever since on just about any OS that has come my way--almost all variants of Unix, Linux, Windows, and a bunch of others that are irrelevant to this conversation. Why do I say

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-23 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Have you seen Windows complain at boot up that you hadn't shut down >> properly, and it needs to check the drive? (Of course you did shut >> down properly, *it* screwed up doing so.) Then you have the fun of >> waiting for it to scan through one hell of a huge drive. More so if >> your c

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.06.2013 14:18, schrieb Tim: > Allegedly, on or about 21 June 2013, Paul Smith sent: >> They are all MS Windows users, and they say that using >> a disk larger than 1 T as a boot disk, the performance will be >> affected. Maybe, that is true with MS Windows and not with Fedora. > > Have you

Re: How can I see the total disk size of my hard disk?

2013-06-22 Thread Reindl Harald
the next time please use a subject for your message! Am 22.06.2013 12:52, schrieb Paul Smith: > How can I see the total disk size of my hard disk? > > I have used the following command: > # fdisk -l | grep Disk > Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors &g

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-22 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 21 June 2013, Paul Smith sent: > They are all MS Windows users, and they say that using > a disk larger than 1 T as a boot disk, the performance will be > affected. Maybe, that is true with MS Windows and not with Fedora. Well, there's this side of that situation: Have you

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.06.2013 23:16, schrieb Paul Smith: > Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? > > I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some > people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk > of at most 1 T. Are they correct? these people are

Re: Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? >> >> I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some >> people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk >> of at most 1 T. Are they correct?

Performance and the hard disk size

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, Does the size of the hard disk affect Fedora's performance? I am looking for a 2 T disk to replace my current disk, but some people are warning me about performance; they say I should buy a disk of at most 1 T. Are they correct? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-03 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tod Thomas wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: >> > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> > wrote: >> > >> > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Tho

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstati

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > > > running > > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > > running > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and > > then I > > discovered my

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > running > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and > then I > discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to > perform the upg

Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
erface and increased the virtual disk size, but does anyone have any working hints on using the GParted iso to increase the size of my VM boot partition? Also, why didn't FC14 establish an adequately sized boot partition during installation? Seems odd the default install would be setup to create a