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Post by rustleg on Nov 16, 2011 6:04:49 GMT -5
I installed KNOS on a 16GB stick in order to use the extra space, since I understood if the stick is larger than 8GB I can use the extra for file storage. First question is what is the base folder for this space? Second question is when the USB was being created from the DVD there was a message which said that it was formatting personal storage space, and gave a figure of 4684.6MB. I expected this to be roughly 8GB. Where's the other 3GB gone (maybe you nicked if for KNOS  )? |
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Nov 17, 2011 1:18:06 GMT -5
I installed KNOS on a 16GB stick in order to use the extra space, since I understood if the stick is larger than 8GB I can use the extra for file storage. First question is what is the base folder for this space? Second question is when the USB was being created from the DVD there was a message which said that it was formatting personal storage space, and gave a figure of 4684.6MB. I expected this to be roughly 8GB. Where's the other 3GB gone (maybe you nicked if for KNOS )? The "base folder" should appear mounted on your desktop as "X.XGB Disk" I'm going to guess it will say "4.4GB Disk" on yours. Should show up right under the other icons on the left side and will also show up in "Places" up on top. The drive has its own root and would be sort of equivalent to "Documents" folder on some Linux thingies. We just mount the drive and let you do with it as you please since it's "your" drive. That amount is correct based on an assumption in how we laid things out in our 8 version. What I had described is what we're going to do with 9 if I ever get the Gnome bugs squashed. That remains elusive on this end and is delaying our beta cycle until I can get the gnome people to fix them as they're something people would be rather unhappy with s it sits right now. In our assumptions for 8, we followed the "textbook" rules on "swap" space although it now turns out as of BSD 9 that this will no longer be necessary. The old rule was to create twice the size of memory (up to 4GB or 8GB in total) available on the machine for swap with a minimum of 4GB for 32 or 64 bit systems. Since you have 4GB or more, that swap space allocated when the stick is burned will work out to just uner 8GB of space, plus the 3GB that KNOS itself needs for a total of 11 and change GB. So your number there is correct. In KNOS9, we will be rolling that back because the amount is overkill for the way the 9 kernel will work. So as of 9, you will have 8GB available no matter what your silicon size is since swap space requirements will go way down with "memory recycling" improvements in 9. If you're not seeing that extra drive on the desktop or up in "Places" ... let me know. You should be seeing it. |
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Post by rustleg on Nov 19, 2011 12:40:37 GMT -5
...<snip> ... If you're not seeing that extra drive on the desktop or up in "Places" ... let me know. You should be seeing it. It's not on the desktop but there is an icon on the top bar. However it is not mounted and refuses to mount with error "Cannot mount volume". Details says "mount: none has unknown file system type". Will send you the diags. |
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Nov 20, 2011 3:04:02 GMT -5
...<snip> ... If you're not seeing that extra drive on the desktop or up in "Places" ... let me know. You should be seeing it. It's not on the desktop but there is an icon on the top bar. However it is not mounted and refuses to mount with error "Cannot mount volume". Details says "mount: none has unknown file system type". Will send you the diags. Hang in there ... got your email and diagnostics and it looks like we've got an insect there in handling USB sticks instead of the way we did it here. That "personal space" was an undocumented feature and looks like we've got an undocumented bug to go with it. I'm trying to figure out what we can do about it, an edit is required, but security won't allow it on your end. I'm trying to see about a workaround. Might take me a day or so, trying some things on this end, will get back to you as soon as I have an idea of where we go next. |
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Post by rustleg on Feb 3, 2012 8:00:46 GMT -5
I've started a new thread for this in "KNOS 9 Beta" with the title "Can't see extra storage space on USB" as it's still not working for me on the new version.
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