From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Eckhardt To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <11421.1381788949.1@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:15:49 -0400 Message-ID: <11422.1381788949@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> Subject: [9fans] "On a clear disk, you can seek forever" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 85d2caf6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Do I have my stupid hat on today, or can somebody reproduce this? It seems as if the fossil partition on the official USB installer image is full of zeroes? Also the fscfg partition, though that bothers me a little less. term% hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/usbdisk.bz2 > usbdisk.bz2 & ... term% ps | grep hget term% ls -s usbdisk.bz2 1777 usbdisk.bz2 term% bunzip2 < usbdisk.bz2 > usbdisk term% disk/partfs -d sdYY /tmp/usbdisk term% cd /dev/sdYY term% disk/fdisk -p data > ctl term% disk/prep -p plan9 > ctl term% lc 9fat ctl data fossil fscfg nvram plan9 term% cmp fossil /dev/zero EOF on fossil after 1794302464 bytes term% cmp 9fat /dev/zero 9fat /dev/zero differ: char 1 term% cmp fscfg /dev/zero EOF on fscfg after 8192 bytes Dave Eckhardt