Hi,

I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to identify,
and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one. When I do an
dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone twll me what this
means please.

On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb hard
drive?

Dave

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Dave Stratford wrote:
>
.... snip ...
>
> On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working
> 42mb hard drive?

I can remember when I would have killed for such limitless disk
space.

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Dave Stratford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to identify,
> and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one. When I do an
> dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone twll me what this
> means please.
>
> On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb hard
> drive?

Beat a cat with it?

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Matt Giwer wrote:
> Dave Stratford wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to identify,
>> and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one. When I do an
>> dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone twll me what
>> this
>> means please.
>>
>> On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb hard
>> drive?
>
>
> Beat a cat with it?
>
Install it into an old pc and load it up with
hundreds of aincient DOS games which are
freely downloadable from many websites

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:48:17 +0100, Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:


>Hi,

>I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to identify,
>and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one. When I do an
>dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone twll me what this
>means please.
Can anybody tell you how to go to google and type "SFS"?
Secure File System. Took less than 3 seconds to find that.



>On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb hard
>drive?
Pull the platters out and make a wind chime.

Buzzard wrote:
> Matt Giwer wrote:
>> Dave Stratford wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to identify,
>>> and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one. When I
>>> do an
>>> dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone twll me what this
>>> means please.

>>> On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb
>>> hard drive?

>> Beat a cat with it?

> Install it into an old pc and load it up with
> hundreds of aincient DOS games which are
> freely downloadable from many websites

While I like flatcats where does one find a PC that old where the contacts have
not corroded?

Don't take that seriously. I just remembered the flatcat reference I couldn't
remember in the first post. Pissed at myself I couldn't pull up Heinlein's
flatcats to say they were good for making them.

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In article <slrne46094.rir.aznomad@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:48:17 +0100, Dave Stratford
> <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:

> >Hi,

> >I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to
> >identify, and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one.
> >When I do an dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone
> >twll me what this means please.
> Can anybody tell you how to go to google and type "SFS"? Secure File
> System. Took less than 3 seconds to find that.

Well actually I (via google) had also found 'Speech Filing System' and
'Self-certifying File System' as well as 'Secure File System' all three of
which I had already dismissed as incorrect given that the HDD came out of
an RH8 machine. I'm just trying to mount the damn thing to see if there is
anything I need to offload before I reformat and dump.

I think I'll just reformat and dump anyway.

> >On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb
> >hard drive?
> Pull the platters out and make a wind chime.
One of the better suggestions!

Dave

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Dave Stratford wrote:
> In article <slrne46094.rir.aznomad@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
> AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:48:17 +0100, Dave Stratford
>> <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Hi,
>
>>> I have a small number of oldish hard drives that I'm trying to
>>> identify, and catalogue their contents. I've managed with all but one.
>>> When I do an dfisk -l, it tells me that it is of type SFS. Can anyone
>>> twll me what this means please.
>> Can anybody tell you how to go to google and type "SFS"? Secure File
>> System. Took less than 3 seconds to find that.
>
> Well actually I (via google) had also found 'Speech Filing System' and
> 'Self-certifying File System' as well as 'Secure File System' all three of
> which I had already dismissed as incorrect given that the HDD came out of
> an RH8 machine.

Also, it could be

- - an OpenOffice Frame file, or
- - an Orion Audio File, or
- - a PCL5 Scalable Font, or
- - a Sibelius Keyboard and Feature Shortcut Set, or
- - a StarOffice Frame file

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=SFS

[snip]

HTH
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Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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>On a lighter note, can anyone suggest a use for a fully working 42mb hard
>drive?

Install a customised kernel and a bash script to act as your firewall
(IPTABLES). Should be a big deal.

Atul

On 2006-04-18, Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Can anybody tell you how to go to google and type "SFS"? Secure File
>> System. Took less than 3 seconds to find that.
>
> Well actually I (via google) had also found 'Speech Filing System' and
> 'Self-certifying File System' as well as 'Secure File System' all three of
> which I had already dismissed as incorrect given that the HDD came out of
> an RH8 machine. I'm just trying to mount the damn thing to see if there is
> anything I need to offload before I reformat and dump.

I suppose it *might* be the "Simple File System" described here:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...ro/~rbb/files/
my_work/os/sfsimpl.html+linux+sfs+%22simple+file+system%22&hl =en&gl=us
&ct=clnk&cd=1

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