Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== External HDD ====== I've bought a nice External HDD case from iSTAR and the 1TB drive that I purchased arrived first. Keen to get some files onto it I just had to plug it in. {{:istar:istar-exthdd.png|}} Once it was formatted up via the WEB interface I telneted back in to see what it looks like <code> # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 32 257008+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 33 95 506047+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 96 121601 975996945 83 Linux # </code> Mount the drive in a real Linux machine allows to see some other interesting things about the format of the partitions. <code> root@gumby:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1 tune2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 4624f2c6-593d-4b61-b211-91526a162e6b Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 32128 Block count: 64252 Reserved block count: 3212 Free blocks: 44538 Free inodes: 31375 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16064 Inode blocks per group: 502 Filesystem created: Fri Jun 27 11:50:41 2008 Last mount time: Sun Jun 29 08:09:30 2008 Last write time: Sun Jun 29 08:09:30 2008 Mount count: 8 Maximum mount count: 31 Last checked: Fri Jun 27 11:50:41 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Wed Dec 24 10:50:41 2008 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 88de6cec-96b8-44a5-8aba-f773672f7171 Journal backup: inode blocks root@gumby:~# </code> The second paritition has **large_file** as a Filesystem feature. <code> root@gumby:~# tune2fs -l /dev/sdb3 tune2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 9ac7b6cb-ee22-4c09-a83e-a0c10100ce47 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 122011648 Block count: 243999236 Reserved block count: 12199961 Free blocks: 145228533 Free inodes: 122010033 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16384 Inode blocks per group: 512 Filesystem created: Fri Jun 27 11:50:44 2008 Last mount time: Mon Jun 30 19:40:18 2008 Last write time: Mon Jun 30 19:40:18 2008 Mount count: 8 Maximum mount count: 36 Last checked: Fri Jun 27 11:50:44 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Wed Dec 24 10:50:44 2008 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 07a48765-6cb5-4193-89eb-8b6362f32e14 Journal backup: inode blocks </code> {{tag>nmt}} istar/fittingexternalhdd.txt Last modified: 2009/11/27 17:54by 127.0.0.1