My 56 TB Hard Drive
Submitted by lostinspace on Thu, 12/08/2005 - 01:35.
SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 Pre-releases
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Really. No kidding. In my almost-virgin installation of 3.4-1 rc1, I was trying to gauge how much space was left on the teensy hard drive (20G, with XP, Mepis, and a swap taking up the space) I right clicked my linux partition, selected properties, and then clikced on the "calculate" button, figuring that would answer my question. About twenty minutes of disk clacking later, it gave me my answer: 55.6TB (61,178,580,360,299), with 188358 files and 13632 sub-folders. So what's up with that?
That's Nothing!
Submitted by Jon Du Quesne on Thu, 12/08/2005 - 12:26.
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Ya know lostinspace, that 56 TB is nothing to write home about. If you really want storage space just mount a partition to the /dev/null device. Man, you can shove stuff down there forever! Of course, data retrieval is a bit difficult 
Jon
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you can always send me the big drive if you can't fill it up.
I had this once, a long time ago, and it went away, and i never did any more than wonder.
It would have been back when 20G was big....
so I wonder if it actually is a fault related to a particular type of drive??
btw a 'virgin' install of 3.4rc1
1.6G 85489files 7167 subfolders
I don't think I've altered that one much