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An anonymous reader writes "Doc Searls, editor at Linux Journal, has a very insightful editorial that brings it all together - the FCC media consolidation ruling, SCO vs. Linux, why broadband is under attack by telcos and cable systems, why we lost Eldred vs. Ashcroft, what's really interesting about Howard Dean's presidential campaign, and a very astute observation about the vast gulf between Liberals and Conservatives."
We have to purge sites like these.
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/boot, to store the kernel image and a few auxiliary files needed at boot time, so as to make sure that this stuff is accessible to the BIOS. There may be reasons of security, ease of administration and backup, or testing, to use more than the minimum number of partitions.
/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb
/dev/sd[a-p] for SCSI disks, /dev/ed[a-d] for ESDI disks, /dev/xd[ab] for XT disks). A device name refers to the entire disk.
/dev/hda1 is the first partition on the first IDE hard disk in the system. Disks can have up to 15 partitions. See also /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt.
fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
SYNOPSIS
fdisk [-u] [-b sectorsize]device
fdisk -l [-u] [-b sectorsize] [device
fdisk -s partition
fdisk -v
DESCRIPTION
Hard disks can be divided into one or more logical disks called partitions. This division is described in the partition table found in sector 0 of the disk.
In the BSD world one talks about `disk slices' and a `disklabel'.
Linux needs at least one partition, namely for its root file system. It can use swap files and/or swap partitions, but the latter are more efficient. So, usually one will want a second Linux partition dedicated as swap partition. On Intel compatible hardware, the BIOS that boots the system can often only access the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. For this reason people with large disks often create a third partition, just a few MB large, typically mounted on
fdisk (in the first form of invocation) is a menu driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables. It understands DOS type partition tables and BSD or SUN type disklabels.
The device is usually one of the following:
(/dev/hd[a-h] for IDE disks,
The partition is a device name followed by a partition number. For example,
A BSD/SUN type disklabel can describe 8 partitions, the third of which should be a `whole disk' partition. Do not start a partition that actually uses its first sector (like a swap partition) at cylinder 0, since that will destroy the disklabel.
An IRIX/SGI type disklabel can describe 16 partitions, the eleventh of which should be an entire `volume' partition, while the ninth should be labeled `volume header'. The volume header will also cover the partition table, i.e., it starts at block zero and extends by default over five cylinders. The remaining space in the volume header may be used by header directory entries. No partitions may overlap with the volume header. Also do not change its type and make some file system on it, since you will lose the partition table. Use this type of label only when working with Linux on IRIX/SGI machines or IRIX/SGI disks under Linux.
A DOS type partition table can describe an unlimited number of partitions. In sector 0 there is room for the description of 4 partitions (called `primary'). One of these may be an extended partition; this is a box holding logical partitions, with descriptors found in a linked list of sectors, each preceding the corresponding logical partitions. The four primary partitions, present or not, get numbers 1-4. Logical partitions start numbering from 5.
In a DOS type partition table the starting offset and the size of each partition is stored in two ways: as an absolute number of sectors (given in 32 bits) and as a Cylinders/Heads/Sectors triple (given in 10+8+6 bits). The former is OK - with 512-byte sectors this will work up to 2 TB. The latter has two different problems. First of all, these C/H/S fields can be filled only when the number of heads and the number of sectors per track are known. Secondly, even if we know what these numbers should be, the 24 bits that are available do not suffice. DOS uses C/H/S only, Windows uses both, Linux never uses C/H/S.
This was part of what the internet was all about: democratizing the ability of an individual outside the established powers to enter into competition or publication or public recognition.
Dear God you're stupid. The Internet was about building a very large network that could withstand physical attack.
You revisionist, self-righteous geeks who think the Internet was this noble, grandiose vision of humanity should get off of your high horses and at least brush up on your history.
evil adrian
Nice pedantry from someone who doesn't know the difference between the Internet and the World-Wide Web.
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
" If you're greedy, you vote Republican, whether it's for an end to the estate tax or a $300 tax refund loan."
It is not greed to want to keep more of what you earned yourself, and to want to give less to greedy government elites who mainly want it to enrich themselves.
Vote Republican if you want workers to see more of what they work for, and vote Democrat if you want to give Ted Kennedy and Corazine more spending money.
That has to be the most FUD-ridden article I've ever read. I thought Slashdot was for news, not liberal rantings. Or are they now one and the same?
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
Kucinich has about as much chance as Pat Buchanan, thankfully.
He has been endorsed by anti-semitic pseudointellectual Noam Chomsky: that is the kiss of death for any chance he has.
The Kyoto Treaty is a bad idea. Did you know that it lets some countries greatly increase greenhouse gases? Bet you did not know that.
His bad ideas outnumber his good ones. He's one of those economic totalitarians.
For Republicans, nothing would be better than for Dean to go against Bush. Dean will make McGovern look like a winner. The Gay Marriage issue alone will keep him from picking up a single southern state, his remarks about the Military will lose him even more.
Go Dean!
Just tell me ten GOOD things about this country. The only thing that I hate are you bozos holding us back. America could be even greater were it not for all the money that has to go to support lazy SOB's and the children they breed like rabbits.