Re: New hard disk IRIX 5.3

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 01/22/04

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    In article <400f083c$0$79386$7b628d20@titanium.syd.ntt.net.au>,
    Pier Federici <ihavenoidead@spam.com> wrote:
    :The system is an Indy runing Irix 5.3.

    :I have aquired a second hand scsi hard disk (500Mb).

    :The disk size in the disk admin gui is reported as 0MB, when ever I write to
    :it available space decreases (-143MB at last count). The 'df -kf' command
    :seems to give me the correct sizes. Will this cause data lose when the disk
    :is full? What can I do to correct the discrepency?

    Well known desktop bug, but it doesn't show up on disks less than 2 Gb --
    is it possible that the drive is really 2.5 Gb or so?

    The problem is that that the desktop was interpreting the size as an
    signed int, instead of as an unsigned long. 

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