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["Alejandro Lieber" <dos AT lieber.com.ar>]

Sindi:

Yesterday night, I formated again hda2, and loaded again my BL3 
backup from a loop.

You are right about small HD. I have a 52Mby working in my office, 9 
hours a day for more than 12 years.

In this machine I have a 250Mby drive, 15Mby for Linux, a 6Mby swap 
and the rest for PC-DOS.

I am writing to Nacho in Mexico, about a Spanish distribution.

Thanks a lot.

On  1 Mar 05 at 4:04, sindi keesan wrote:

> I just deleted and remade an empty partition of 1.5GB.  Fdisk told me the 
> superblock backup copies are at:
> 
> 32768
> 98304
> 163840
> 229376
> 294912
> 
> Apparently I was wrong about adding the 1, or maybe some drives are 
> different.
> 
> So try these before you give up.
> 
> If your drive is smaller the superblocks will probably be at lower 
> numbers.  You can experiment by mke2fs on a partition the same size as the 
> one that is having problems.
> 
> I had three drives go bad out of four this week and am learning a lot 
> about partitions.  One drive shrank from 3.2 to 1.2GB according to the 
> BIOS (but the partitions stayed larger than the drive).  Two drives in the 
> other computer stayed the right size but the last partition on each 
> doubled in size.  I had to erase all the info on the first computer's 
> drive but just the last partition needed to be remade on the other two. 
> I have learned to always have a copy of all my files.  I lost another 
> drive earlier.  Only the big ones go bad (1G or more).  My 340 and 540 
> work perfectly. Same for 1.44K floppy disks - always going bad.  The 360K 
> fail once or twice a year and I use lots of them.  So it might be best to 
> put BL3 on the smallest drive where it will fit - 120MB?
> 
> 
> 
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> 
> 

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Ing. Alejandro Lieber  
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