[ale] simple question

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Drive manufacturers advertise disk size in base 10. Computers report disk
size in base 2. 

> Does one percent bad blocks for a brand new, just out of the 
> box, hard drive sound unusual?

If it's a Maxtor, not at all. If it IS a Maxtor, I'd return it. 

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Thus Spake Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org>:
Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:16:20 -0500


> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:57 am, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> | I think it would be far easier to just cat /proc/partitions or look
> | for the entry in dmesg.
> 
> 
> Actually the problem turns out to be a simple typing error.
> I should have typed:
> mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/backup
> 
> but what I typed was "/dev/sda"
> 
> So now I have a different question:  What happened to
> 6.2 gigs of hard drive space?  When I do an <ls -al> on the
> drive the only thing that shows up is a 16k "lost+found" directory.
> 
> running the <df> command I get this:
> 
> /dev/sda1            153834852     94284 153740568   1% /mnt/backup
> 
> I carefully ran the format command to NOT withhold any space for
> root.  Reading /var/log/messages it looks like the formatting
> command did find a few bad blocks. Does one percent bad blocks 
> for a brand new, just out of the box, hard drive sound unusual?
> 
> At this point I'm not complaining as 153 GB is certainly adequate for
> storing my photo collection. Even at 30 mgb a scan, I'm not going to
> run out of space any time soon.
> 
> Sean
> 
>