[PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it isn't - FIXED
Jeff
dejamuse at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 8 06:41:54 PDT 2010
Well, executing this command and then rebuilding the partition in fdisk and label, solved the problem:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=1
There were evidently old partitions that didn't get wiped out via sysinstall.
Now reporting 830GiB free! Not sure where the other ~100GiB went.
--- On Sat, 8/7/10, Jeff <dejamuse at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Jeff <dejamuse at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it isn't
To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 11:02 AM
I updated the drive's firmware, but didn't see anything that would address this issue in any new BIOS updates, so I didn't change the BIOS.
I disabled legacy mode and forced the USB drive to category "hard drive".
Still same problem.
--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol at neiu.edu> wrote:
From: Arthur Koziol <A-Koziol at neiu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it isn't
To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 11:13 AM
Jeff,
I doubt it will make much difference but in your BIOS is there a
setting called Enabled / Disable USB Legacy mode? In my years of
experience with Dells, this option often made certain USB peripherals
work / appear. And just out of curiosity, have you tried to see if
there is perhaps a firmware update for your external drive? BIOS up to
date too?
Arthur
I reformatted the drive to UFS2 after I bought it. It
was formatted for Windows - don't recall the file system.
I have a thread at FBSD forums too, but no joy yet.
Anyway, I have an internal 500GB HD that works fine. Compare the two
Fdisk outputs for clues. Something doesn't look right:
******* Working on device /dev/da0s1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=121600 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=121600 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
------------------------------------------------------------------
Compared to a 500GB internal drive I also have:
******* Working on device /dev/ad7 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 976773105 (476939 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
wrote:
From: Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin thinks external HD is full but it
isn't
To: testing at lists.pcbsd.org
Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 8:19 AM
On 08/05/2010 10:42, Jeff wrote:
I removed all files from the drive and now it reports
1.2GB free.
# df -h shows:
Filesystem
Size
Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/da0s1 1.9G 635M 1.2G 35% /media/disk
Yet Dolphin reports the drive size as 931.5 GiB which seems about right.
Sysinstall shows:
DISK Geometry: 121601 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 1953520065 sectors
(953867MB)
Offset
Size(ST) End Name PType Desc
Subtype Flags
0 63 62
- 12 unused 0
63 1953520002 1953520064 da0s1
8 freebsd 165
1953520065 5103 1953525167 -
12 unused 0
Anyone else have this problem?
I've not run into this problem before... Your external disk drive is
formatted UFS though, right? Does FAT32 fare any better, since that's
what most of the external drives I've tested use?
--
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
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