Re: [tlug] how filesystem works?

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:17:51 +0900, "emiddleton@example.com"
<emiddleton@example.com> wrote:

> >  Why simply
> > 1. find files at the beginning of disk
> >
>
> How were you going to do this?

By sticking them in a partition that's within the first 1024 cylinders?

Do people still run Linux systems with just a huge root partition?

$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1020     8193118+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2            1021        1028       64260   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1029        1637     4891792+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            1638       14593   104069070    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1638        1701      514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            1702        1765      514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            1766        1900     1084356   83  Linux
/dev/hda8            1901        3117     9775521   83  Linux
/dev/hda9            3118        3181      514048+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda10           3182       13500    82887336   83  Linux
/dev/hda11          13501       14593     8779491   83  Linux

/dev/hda2 is the "/boot" partition. Whatever kernel you stick in there
it'll always be within reach of the machine's BIOS.

--
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but that would fool nobody.
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