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2010-11-17 by karmagician
Hi all, Having powered on my Series III for the first time in several years, I'm trying to determine if I have enough free space on the HD to load some files from tape. When you do a "free" in the shell, it tells you how many "sectors" are available - I completely forget what this means...is a sector 256k, so 4 sectors = 1 mb? something like that I seem to recall....
2010-11-17 by karmagician
Actually, found it in the manual - 1 sector = 256 bytes, so 4 sectors = 1k. --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "karmagician" <karmagician@...> wrote:
> > Hi all, > > Having powered on my Series III for the first time in several years, I'm trying to determine if I have enough free space on the HD to load some files from tape. > > When you do a "free" in the shell, it tells you how many "sectors" are available - I completely forget what this means...is a sector 256k, so 4 sectors = 1 mb? something like that I seem to recall.... >
2010-11-17 by Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:45 +0000, karmagician wrote: > Actually, found it in the manual - 1 sector = 256 bytes, so 4 sectors = 1k. I was going to say, normal Boring Old SCSI has 256-byte sectors. 256kByte sectors would be quite impressive. You'd a disk nearly 670 feet across... Gordon MM0YEQ
2010-11-17 by Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski
> 256kByte sectors would be quite impressive. You'd a disk nearly 670 > feet across... Actually the sector size is only logical unit, you'd just waste 256kB per any file. Remember that not a long ago you'd need 64kB sectors to go beyond 20 GB disk limit on a FAT32 filesystem.