"validating" everytime I boot

[DamageX]

I installed a 2GB drive to replace a 250MB drive. I made two partitions, each just under 1GB, and copied over WB3.9 and everything else from the old drive to the new one.

Now it takes a long time to boot and continues to flog the harddrive for some time even after WB comes up. IS IT DOING ITS IMPRESSION OF WINDOZE!?

Also, I have about 2MB less of free memory now for some reason, not sure if that's related.

[leofoe]

I also have bad experience copying OS3.9 system disks. Install from scratch I would say.

[bloodline]

Just run Disksalve2 :-)

[zipper]

Be sure not to use FFS with Directory Cache.

[Wayne]

do not use FFS i'ts a lame filesystem
use SFS instead,no diskvalidated problems

bye, Laser

[whiteb]

Laser wrote:
do not use FFS i'ts a lame filesystem
use SFS instead,no diskvalidated problems

bye, Laser

You would be suprised, i had SFS have validation issues, it went into a loop.., "Fixed file system errors, rebooting".. reboot back "Fixed file system errors, rebooting".

Forever and a day..

What salv programs for Amiga are available that support >4GIG ?

[DamageX]

By experimentation I found that the presence of certain
directories on the new drive was causing it to validate.
DiskSalv2 didn't fix the problem. Reformatting and copying
all the files again didn't fix the problem. Repartitioning
and choosing a different block size (2KB instead of 8KB)
and then formatting and copying all the files DID fix the
problem. Go figure. Also, I realized that the larger block
size (the old drive had the default 512 bytes) is what ate
up some extra memory, since the buffers were then
proportionally bigger.

[zipper]

Not to forget the extra space small files take - easy to lose 10-50% HD capacity because of big blocks. I went back from 8k to 2k.