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From: ndiamond@despammed.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: negative diskspace usage
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:37:42 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501220837.j0M8bgk22582@mailout.despammed.com> (raw)

Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> After cleaning up a bit df suddenly showed interesting results:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md4             1019M  -64Z  1.1G 101% /tmp
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md4               1043168 -73786976294838127736   1068904 101% /tmp

It looks like Windows 95's FDISK
command created the partitions.
After that it doesn't matter which
operating systems you connect the
drive to when formatting the
partitions and writing files and
cleaning whatever you want to clean.
The partition boundaries still remain
where Windows 95 put them, and you
have overlapping partitions.

After backing up whatever files you
can still access (and don't trust
the contents of the files either),
zero out the MBR and start over.

             reply	other threads:[~2005-01-22  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-22  8:37 ndiamond [this message]
2005-01-22 10:09 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-01-22 20:41   ` Norbert van Nobelen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-03 11:31 Dave Gilbert (Home)
2005-01-21 14:11 Wichert Akkerman
2005-01-22 21:23 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-23 22:56   ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-01-23 23:26     ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-24  9:07       ` Wichert Akkerman

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