USB enclosure and partition size
Markus Huber
humarfedoralists at yahoo.de
Mon Aug 23 16:00:51 UTC 2004
Joel Jaeggli schrieb:
>
> If your usb enclosure supports 48bit lba block mode it should work
> with any size disk you can buy currently. I have 120GB and 250GB
> drives in USB enclosures that are well behaved.
Well, the vendor is quiet about that, it says "Complies with ATA/ATP-6
specification revision 1.0". I am not a specialist, and google does not
find any documents what that means.
> Now if you could only see the first 137GB of the disk that would a
> problem.
Well, it looks good (it's the sda1):
$ df
Dateisystem 1K-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf
/dev/sda1 196015808 419976 185638748 1% /mnt/usb1
185 GB free space, 5 % is reserved for the "superuser", I hope it can
use the space. I'll see.
Thank you
Markus
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