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#171874 - 23/07/2003 00:48 HDD as Storage?
rowitech
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Registered: 22/09/2002
Posts: 249
Loc: Germany, Cologne
I tried to transfer 50MB via ftp to my /programs0. After 6 MB is aborts with an "internal error". So my general question: Isn't it possible to transfer any file to the empeg? I only want to use it as a portable harddisk.

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#171875 - 23/07/2003 01:37 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: rowitech]
Shonky
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Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 2009
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
I'm pretty sure programs0 is only 16 or 32 megabytes minus filesystem overhead. I'm guessing you also have other stuff already there?

I just use /drive0 or /drive1 for big files. Just make sure you correctly mount read only when you're done.
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#171876 - 23/07/2003 03:49 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: rowitech]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
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Yup, Shonky is right. If you want to store big files, it has to go on one of the music partitions.

I regularly use /drive0 to taxi files much larger than 50mb between home and work.
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#171877 - 23/07/2003 11:21 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: tfabris]
rowitech
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Registered: 22/09/2002
Posts: 249
Loc: Germany, Cologne
Yes, works. Thank you. I should get an df on the empeg :-).

Rolf
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#171878 - 24/07/2003 02:04 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: rowitech]
Shonky
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Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 2009
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
I do actually have df on my developer version empeg (which you'll need anyway) - it came with it, I didn't add it. I think it used to work. However it now says "df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems: No such file or directory". Dunno what that means exactly.

I figure I'll worry about it when disc space starts getting low. I know I have about 20Gb free but I don't know how it's spread across the drives

Edit : It appears to be something to do with /etc/fstab or possibly a non existent /etc/mtab.


Edited by Shonky (24/07/2003 02:06)
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#171879 - 24/07/2003 03:18 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: Shonky]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
I am sure that an easy (as in defining an alias or something) workaround exists (I use it, but don't have my empeg handy, and can't remember what it was exactly). I think this was discussed several times, so serach a bit...

Hm, I think that it boiled down to df working if given a single device (or was it mountpoint) as parameter, and those, in turn, can be gleaned from /etc/something-or-other. So, a bit of grepping etc would probable do...

Sorry for not being more helpful...
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#171880 - 24/07/2003 08:15 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: Shonky]
image
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Registered: 28/04/2002
Posts: 770
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
all you have to do is do a "df ." while in the partition. it will give the error, but will also output the free space. thats what i've been doing, at least.

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#171881 - 24/07/2003 19:28 Re: HDD as Storage? [Re: Shonky]
genixia
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Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
It's complaining because it can't find /etc/mtab.
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