[hobbit] problem with disk test display

[Larry.Barber at usda.gov]

Not necessarily, most of the "dead" partitions on my machines are CD's
that were mounted to install software, and then dismounted, leaving
an .rrd file, but returning nothing in the df output after being
dismounted. 

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 18:46 -0500, craig at cookitservices.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Larry.Barber at usda.gov
> wrote: 
> > > Henrik, it appears that having partitions removed from a
> Linux/Unix 
> > > system messes up the disk drive display. The disk test continues
> to 
> > > display the removed partitions (at least in the legend), but at
> the 
> > > expense of not displaying all of the current partitions. In order
> to 
> > > display all of the current partitions you have to manually remove 
> > > the .rrd files that correspond to the removed partitions. 
> >  
> > Ah yes - this is probably the same bug that Pat Vaughan reported 
> > earlier today.
> 
> I would be wary about calling this a bug.  You should not be dropping
> file systems without a good reason. 
> If you do drop a file system, you expect to do extra work.  ie. locate
> rrd file and delete it (or run a command that does it for you).
> 
> I would be concerned if a tool automatically removed a disk parition
> graph if it was not mounted at the time it was last checked.
> 
> Maybe this should be made as a note in the documentation somewhere.
> 
> 
> Craig Cook 
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