27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
4:39 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 10:57 -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
I'm allowed to say this, as a long-time Linux supporter and bigot.
A LOT of Linux tools are "dumbed-down" to be accessible to people
like I was when I first used it. I had a little DOS experience, no Unix
or under-the-covers network or security knowledge at all, and the
user-friendly mods and shortcuts made it much easier and much less foreign.
Think about root's home directory in most Linux distributions - /root
exists because noobs like me were running the system day-to-day as root,
and mucking up the real root directory.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Sure, at the filesystem level disk blocks might be combined - I'm just
surprised that fdisk doesn't report the block counts using the block
size of whatever media it's dealing with. It obviously knows that it's
dealing with a disk that uses 512-byte blocks, but it still shows the
block counts as though they were 1024 byte blocks. Just struck me as
odd! (Incidentally I noticed that linux fdisk defaults
to reporting the
blocks count in 1024-byte blocks, rather than the 512-byte blocks that
the disk itself is using)
That confuses the students in my Linux classes as well, since fdisk
reports in 1024-byte blocks even on ext partitions that have
4096-byte-block filesystems. :) I'll be back at the museum tomorrow where I've
left the DSP
supercomputer system that this hard disk is part of, so hopefully I'll
have a chance to do some more work on it and try to fix its console
port. Darn thing's too big to bring home with me! :-)
I'd think you'd find a way.... ;)
Doc