On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:46:05 -0600 Bruce wrote: BS> 1. How does this behave on other UNIX operating systems? What are you BS> seeing for partition sizes for off-beat filesystem arrangements. [...] BS> Now for some more philosophical questions. For the purposes of HRM, what BS> are we calling a "partition"?
A think what you are calling a 'slice' is a partition. BS> 2. Is a disk slice that is a member of a mirror, raid or hot spare pool a BS> "partition"? If so, what do we do about its size? Is it..."I'm a two gig BS> slice" or "I'm a member of an eight gig mirror"? Yes, they are. And you would use the slice size. BS> What about hot spares? BS> If they go into use, they're suddenly magically "mounted". Is it now a BS> "partition"? What about the drive/slice that blew up? A partition (slice) should be listed regardless of whether or not it is mounted. For that matter, even uninitialzed partitions should be listed. BS> 3. Is a partition size worth displaying if it isn't mounted? Yes. BS> 4. Is "swap" a filesystem? Is the size of a swap slice of interest? How BS> about a swap metadevice. Again, all partitions should be in the partition table. I'm not sure about the swap filesystem question. I'd gues maybe nod. BS> 5. What about CD-ROMs and DVD's? If there is a CD-ROM or DVD in the drive, it's partitions and filesystems should be listed. -- Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie <http://www.net-snmp.org/> <irc://irc.freenode.net/#net-snmp> Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=net-snmp-users> You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
