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author | Michael Lucas <mwlucas@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-02-02 00:43:51 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Lucas <mwlucas@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-02-02 00:43:51 +0000 |
commit | dafc837843385b1d34f1ed50887a9125422b6ea3 (patch) | |
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Axe the question on cramming 1TB files onto a floppy disk.
1) This is not asked frequently. This is not asked rarely. This has
probably only been asked once, in some leap year during the
thirteenth full moon.
2) "You need a dd that handles large files"; this is spectacularly
unhelpful, as it says nothing about where to get such a dd, what's
wrong with the existing dd, etc.
3) This information might be useful somewhere in the Handbook, if rewritten
and generalized to explain why files can be larger than the disks
that they live on: since this question is simply met with derision
by many members of the -doc team, however, not to mention the
FreeBSD community in general, we'll just deorbit it.
4) If we had a "Stupid FreeBSD Tricks" book, this would belong there.
Notes
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 3f2ae67ef3..7cc24f21c3 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -2131,43 +2131,6 @@ disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 1 # change from wd3 to wd2</programlisting </qandaentry> <qandaentry> - <question id="tb-on-floppy"> - <para>How can I put 1TB files on my floppy?</para> - </question> - - <answer> - <para>I keep several virtual ones on floppies :-). The maximum - file size is not closely related to the maximum disk size. The - maximum disk size is 1TB. It is a feature that the file size - can be larger than the disk size.</para> - - <para>The following example creates a file of size 8T-1 using a - whole 32K of disk space (3 indirect blocks and 1 data block) on - a small root partition. The dd command requires a dd that works - with large files.</para> - - <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cat foo</userinput> -df . -dd if=/dev/zero of=z bs=1 seek=`echo 2^43 - 2 | bc` count=1 -ls -l z -du z -df . -&prompt.user; <userinput>sh foo</userinput> -Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on -/dev/da0a 64479 27702 31619 47% / -1+0 records in -1+0 records out -1 bytes transferred in 0.000187 secs (5346 bytes/sec) --rw-r--r-- 1 bde bin 8796093022207 Sep 7 16:04 z -32 z -Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on -/dev/da0a 64479 27734 31587 47% /</screen> - - <para>Bruce Evans, September 1998</para> - </answer> - </qandaentry> - - <qandaentry> <question id="archsw-readin-failed-error"> <para>Why do I get an error message, <errorname>archsw.readin.failed</errorname> after compiling |