Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 10:03:39 +0200 From: Christian Gennerat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Localisation of the hibernation area (IBM 20 G) I wanted an hibernation partition with the minimal size on a Libretto 110 1) Create a partition about [8 Gb - 200 Mb ; 8 Gb + 100 Mb], then center the partition around the hibernation area 2) Write all zero on it "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda10 bs=1024 count=300000" 3) Run some applications 4) Hibernate the Libretto "apm -s" 5) Restart the Libretto 6) Check with the following shell #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/zero of=zero63 bs=1024 count=63 cyl=0 while [ $cyl -le 88326 ] do xcyl=`printf "%05x" $cyl` cp -a zero63 cyl dd if=/dev/hda10 bs=1024 skip=$cyl of=cyl count=63 &>/dev/null cmp -s zero63 cyl && echo "$xcyl === $cyl" cmp -s zero63 cyl || echo "$xcyl ###" let "cyl = $cyl+63" done And the result with IBM-DJSA-220 is the partition defined as: fdisk -l /dev/hda Disque /dev/hda : 255 têtes, 63 secteurs, 2432 cylindres Unités = cylindres sur 16065 * 512 octets .......... /dev/hda10 1017 1027 88326 a0 Hibernation Thinkpad IBM The hibernation area is the center portion of the partition: 0x03e80-0x14680 ### 16000-83584 -> 67584 k The rest of the partition (the first 16000k and the last 2800k) can be used to store confidential cyphered raw data, unreadable via ftp, nfs, samba. -- The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
