iStar

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.

Once it was formatted up via the WEB interface I telneted back in to see what it looks like

# 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
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Mount the drive in a real Linux machine allows to see some other interesting things about the format of the partitions.

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:~#

The second paritition has large_file as a Filesystem feature.

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

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