Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM, don fisher <hdf3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Disk /dev/sda: 8999.9 GB, 8999934099456 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1094179 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Rebooting under ubuntu the output is reported as:
>
> Disk /dev/sda1: 203.8 GB, 203835590656 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24781 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x2bd0a78e

Is Fedora really talking about sda (the disk) and Ubuntu talking about
sda1 (a partition on the disk)?

In anycase, launchpad would be the place to report a bug:
  https://launchpad.net/

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia