BEST PRACTICE TO PARTITION THE HARD DISK

Can some Please guide me on THE BEST PRACTICE TO PARTITION THE[b] HARD DISK FOR 10G R2 on operating system HP-UX-11
Thanks,
Amol
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I/O speed is a basic function of number of disk controllers available to read and write, physical speed of the disks, size of the I/O pipe(s) between SAN and server, and the size of the SAN cache, and so on.
Oracle recommends SAME - Stripe And Mirror Everything. This comes in RAID10 and RAID01 flavours. Ideally you want multiple fibre channels between the server and the SAN. Ideally you want these LUNs from the SAN to be seen as raw devices by the server and use these raw devices as ASM devices - running ASM as the volume manager. Etc.
Performance is not achieved by just partitioning. Or just a more memory. Or just a faster CPU. Performance planning and scalability encapsulates the complete system. All parts. Not just a single aspect like partitioning.
Especially not partitioning as an actual partition is simple a "logical reference" for a "piece" of the disk. I/O performance has very little do with how many pieces you split a a single disk into. That is the management part. It is far more important how you stripe and whether you use RAID5 instead of a RAID1 flavour, etc.
So I'm not sure why you are all uppercase about partitioning....

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Partitioning The Hard Disk

I wanted to how to partition the hard disk so I can have three partitions, i.e One for the Mac OS X 10.6 and applications, and one for the User files i.e all documents, downloads, music etc, and one for the bootcamp partition, I know how to partition, i wanted to how to move the user directory permanently into the second partition, this way if I ever have to reinstall the OS I dont have to back up my data, all the time.
Actually I also would like suggestions on whether this is a Good or Bad Idea, Performance wise?, and also whether this is possible?

Do you mean uninstalling software? If so see the following:
Uninstalling Software: The Basics
Most OS X applications are completely self-contained "packages" that can be uninstalled by simply dragging the application to the Trash. Applications may create preference files that are stored in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ folder. Although they do nothing once you delete the associated application, they do take up some disk space. If you want you can look for them in the above location and delete them, too.
Some applications may install an uninstaller program that can be used to remove the application. In some cases the uninstaller may be part of the application's installer, and is invoked by clicking on a Customize button that will appear during the install process.
Some applications may install components in the /Home/Library/Applications Support/ folder. You can also check there to see if the application has created a folder. You can also delete the folder that's in the Applications Support folder. Again, they don't do anything but take up disk space once the application is trashed.
Some applications may install a startupitem or a Log In item. Startupitems are usually installed in the /Library/StartupItems/ folder and less often in the /Home/Library/StartupItems/ folder. Log In Items are set in the Accounts preferences. Open System Preferences, click on the Accounts icon, then click on the LogIn Items tab. Locate the item in the list for the application you want to remove and click on the "-" button to delete it from the list.
Some software use startup daemons or agents that are a new feature of the OS. Look for them in /Library/LaunchAgents/ and /Library/LaunchDaemons/ or in /Home/Library/LaunchAgents/.
If an application installs any other files the best way to track them down is to do a Finder search using the application name or the developer name as the search term. Unfortunately Spotlight will not look in certain folders by default. You can modify Spotlight's behavior or use a third-party search utility, Easy Find, instead. Download Easy Find at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Some applications install a receipt in the /Library/Receipts/ folder. Usually with the same name as the program or the developer. The item generally has a ".pkg" extension. Be sure you also delete this item as some programs use it to determine if it's already installed.
There are also several shareware utilities that can uninstall applications:
AppZapper
CleanApp
Yank
SuperPop
Uninstaller
Spring Cleaning
Look for them at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
For more information visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on removing software.

Best practice for partitioning 300 GB disk

Hi,
I would like to seek for advise on how I should partition a 300 GB disk on Solaris 8.x, what would be the optimal size for each of the partition.
The system will be used internally for running web/application servers and database servers.
Thanks in advance for your help.

There is no "best practice" regardles of what others might say. I depends entirely on how you plan on using and maintaining the system. I have run into too many situations where fine-grained file system sizing bit the admins in the backside. For example, I've run into some that assumed that /var is only going to be for logging and printing, so they made it nice and small. What they didn't realize is that patch and package information is also stored in /var. So, when they attempted to install the R&S cluster, they couldn't because they couldn't put the patch info into /var.
I've also run into other problems where a temp/export system that was mounted on a root-level directory. They made the assumption that "Oh, well, it's root. It can be tiny since /usr and /opt have their own partitions." The file system didn't mount properly, so any scratch files in that directory that were created went to the root file system and filled it up.
You can never have a file system that's too big, but you can always have a file system that's too small.
I will recommend the following, however:
* /var is the most volatile directory and should be on its own several GB partition to account for patches, packages, and logs.
* You should have another partition as big as your system RAM and assign that parition as a system/core dump for system crashes.
* /usr or whatever file system it's on must be big enough to assume that it will be loaded with FOSS/Sunfreeware tools, even if at this point you have no plans on installing them. I try to make mine 5-6 GB or more.
* If this is a single-disk system, do not use any kind of parallel access structure, like what Oracle prefers, as it will most likely degrade system performance. Single disks can only make single I/O calls, obviously.
Again, there is no "best practice" for this. It's all based on what you plan on doing with it, what applications you plan on using, and how you plan on using it. There is nothing that anyone here can tell you that will be 100% applicable to your situation.

Partition the hard disk

Hi,
I want to make a partition my Mac Book (Mac OS x10.4.11) hardisk using bootcamp. How can i take the back up of my data. Is it something like Time machine for tiger aswell ?.
Thank you

First, there is no Time Machine with Tiger. It is only available with Leopard. Second, the Boot Camp Beta available for Tiger has expired and is no longer usable. Boot Camp is now only available with Leopard.
Basic Backup
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Although you can buy a complete FireWire drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.
It's possible to use the Boot Camp Beta but only if you set your computer's clock to a date prior to the Beta's expiration date which was Oct. 26, 2007. However, a better solution all around is to get Leopard and upgrade your system.

Best practice for exporting the same disk to multiple guests?

I've got a T4-4 with two service domains. Each service domain has access to the same pool of SAN disks.
primary service domain has vds primary-vds0
secondary service domain has vds secondary-vds0
So far I've sucessfully built a single backend service for each SAN disk on each service domain and used the MP group operation to enable multipathing, i.e.
ldm add-vds primary-vds0_a primary
ldm add-vds secondary-vds0 secondary
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=target1 /dev/dsk/c0t6target1 target1@primary-vds0
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=target1 /dev/dsk/c0t6target1 target1@secondary-vds0
ldm add-vdisk id=0 bootdisk target1@primary-vds0 guest_a
Now, I have database datafile LUNS that I need to present to two guests at once since they're using Veritas clustering. As I understand it, what I have to present to each guest is a unique volume (volume@vds) export, and I can do it one of two ways:
Build mutiple exports of the same disk on the same vds:
ldm add-vds primary-vds0_a primary
ldm add-vds secondary-vds0 secondary
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1a /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db1_server_a@primary-vds0
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1a /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db1_server_a@secondary-vds0
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1b /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db1_server_b@primary-vds0
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1b /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db1_server_b@secondary-vds0
ldm add-vdisk id=6 database_disk db1_server_a@primary-vds0 guest_a
ldm add-vdisk id=6 database_disk db1_server_b@primary-vds0 guest_b
Build a separate vds for each guest domain, and then add the vdsdevs to each vds:
ldm add-vds primary-vds-server_a primary
ldm add-vds primary-vds-server_b primary
ldm add-vds secondary-vds-server_a secondary
ldm add-vds secondary-vds-server_b secondary
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1a /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db_disk@primary-vds-server_a
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1a /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db_disk@secondary-vds-server_a
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1b /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db_disk@primary-vds-server_b
ldm add-vdsdev mpgroup=db1b /dev/dsk/c0c6target5 db_disk@secondary-vds-server_b
ldm add-vdisk id=6 database_disk db_disk@primary-vds-server_a guest_a
ldm add-vdisk id=6 database_disk db_disk@primary-vds-server_b guest_b
The end result is the same, but is there any advantage (performance, configuration management, whatever) to doing it one way versus the other?
Thanks!
Tim Metzinger

the standards for videoDVD are 720x480, and usually mpeg2 encoded..
so, your HiDef project HAS to be 'downsampled' somehow..
I would Export with Qucktime/apple intermediate => which is the 'format' your project is allready, and you avoid any useless 'inbetween encoding'..
iDVD will 'swallow' this huge export file - don't mind: iDVD cares for length, not size.
iDVD will then convert into DVD-standards..
you can 'raise' quality, by using projects <60min - this sets iDVD automatically to highest technical possible bitrate
hint: judge pic quality on a DVDplayer + TV.. not on your computer (DVDs are meant for TVdelivery)

What's the best practice to partition an existing table?

We are using Oracle 11g EE 11.2.0.3.0. We want to partition an existing table. I found some information from this link [http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/partitioning-an-existing-table.php], but I am not sure whether that's the best way. Could anyone share the best practice of partitioning an existing table?
Thanks.
Jun

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We want to partition a few related tables. A couple of tables have about 30 million rows, and a couple of other tables have about 10 million rows. The data for those tables is for ~2000 accounts, each of them is identified by a column named "account_id". We want to partition the tables by using the "account_id" as the partition key to gain better performance for queries, so we would probably use hash partition. Please advise.
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1. What evidence do you have that your performance will be any better if you partition those tables?
2. What evidence do you have that there is anything wrong with the performance of your current queries?
3. Have you reviewed the actual execution plans for your most important queries to see if there is even any room for improvement?
If your query uses account_id as a predicate but only pulls a few records from a 'master' table for that key value your performance may actually be worse if you partition that table. That is because using an index range scan Oracle can easily find the ROWIDs of the rows that need to be selected and then easily retrieve them regardless of their physical location.
If you have queries that do NOT use account_id but currently use indexes the performance of those queries may also be worse if you partition that table. Those indexes will be GLOBAL.
There are two major implications when you use hash partitioning:
1. Any query that does NOT include the partitioning key (account_id for your case) will, of necessity, have to use a full table scan if an appropriate index is not available.
2. You will get NO management benefits such as being able to add/remove partitions that include old data.
Before you decide to partition a table you should conduct tests and examine the execution plans for your important queries.

How can i access the hard disk and know the no of partitions

sir
i want to access the hard disk and know how many parttions the hard disk have means c,d,e,f,g or may be c,d,e? also volum no or serial no.
but i do not know how?
plz help me and send me a code
thanks in advance
if this quesstion is not related to this forum plz guide me that where i put this quesstion?

You figure out how to do it on your OS using C/C++ code.
Then you write a wrapper in JNI to call your C/C++ code.

What's the best practice to manage the page file?

We have one Hyper-v Server running windows 2012 R2 with 128 GB RAM and 2 drives (C and D). It setup Automatically manage page file size for all drives. What's the best practice to manage the page file?
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For Hyper-V systems, my general recommendation is to set the page file to 1-4 GB. This allows for a mini-dump should something happen. 99.99% of the time, Microsoft will be able to figure out the cause of the problem from the mini-dump. It does not make
sense on a Hyper-V system to set aside enough space to capture all the memory on the system because only a very small portion of that memory is used by the parent partition. Most of the memory is under control of the individual VMs.
Yes, I had one of the Hyper-V product group tell me that I should let Windows manage it. A couple of times I saw space on my system disk disappear because the algorithm decided it wanted all the space for the page file. Made it so I couldn't
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Ello, I changed my Imac hard drive which no longer worked. I installed a hard drive Western Digital 500 GB 7200 rpm SATA3 WD5002AALX 32M Black. Sometimes I see the hard disk in the utility on the Starter CD, but access seems very slow. By cons when I want

Hello, I changed my Imac hard drive which no longer worked. I installed a hard drive
Western Digital 500 GB 7200 rpm SATA3 WD5002AALX 32M Black. Sometimes I see the hard disk in the utility on the Starter CD, but access seems very slow. By cons when I want
install OS X 10.4.2 on the hard drive, I do not see the disk. What is the problem?

Thanks for the help
I started on the installation CD OS X 10.4.2, I used Disk Utility
to partition the disk according to the document that you have proposed. unfortunately
I have not succeeded. When I partition the disk, even if I called it Macintosh HD, it
does not keep the name and it shows disk0s3 instead. I did an erase on disk.
When I mount the disk it tells me that I must repair. When I tried to repair, I got
the following message:
Volume check failed
The underflying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
I also had a message:
Invalid b-tree node size.
Note: The disc is new, but it has already been formatted on a computer Imac 27 inch 2011 OS X Lion.
I used a USB 2.0 to SATA cable to adjust the formatting.
What to do to fix it?

Windows 8.1 Hyper-V - Error while configuring the hard disk 0xC03A0014

Hello. I have just enabled Hyper-V on my Windows 8.1 laptop.
Dell Latitude E7440 i7-4600U @ 2.10GHz
I can create a Virtual-Switch but I am unable to create a new Hard Disk or Virtual Machine within Hyper-V. I get the same error for both processes.
Error: The Virtual Machine Management Service encountered an error while configuring the hard disk on virtual machine New Virtual Machine.
Failed to create the virtual hard disk.
The system failed to create C:\Users\user\Documents\Test\New.vhdx .
Failed to create the virtual hard disk
The system failed to create C:\Users\user\Documents\Test\New.vhdx . A Virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found. (0xC03A0014).
I have ran all Dell Client System updates and all of windows updates.
I have attempted to create a virtual machine on the current SSD and also an external drive. The same error appears.
I have also attempted to create a virtual hard disk via Hyper-v with a Base vhdx, still the same error occurs. I've tested the base image on other laptops of the same model and windows 8.1 without issue.
Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Thank you,
-Jake

Hi Jake,
"Enable Data Execution Protection (DEP) in the BIOS and make sure the Format of drive file system is not fat32.
1. Uninstall Intel Active System Monitor 3.0, if installed.
2. Disable "Intel IPMI Service" and "Intel Monitoring Agent" Service.
3. Open regedit and locate: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\imbdrv.
4. Change the Start Key to 4 (Disabled).
5. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-0 8002BE10318}.
6. Take ownership of the ‘Properties’ key.
7. Give yourself full permission for this key.
8. Now locate the properties key; if you see a ‘Security’ entry there, that is your problem. Delete this key.
9. Try attaching or adding the VHD again after rebooting.
If above steps did not help, add the Network Service account to Local Administrator group."
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Replacing the hard disk on an iBook G3 (700 Dual USB)

Hi
I'm kind of regarded as the guy to go and see when anything goes wrong with a Mac, here in Athens, Greece. But I have very little hardware experience with laptops. A friend of mine just brought me her iBook G3 (700 Dual USB), running Panther 10.3.9 to check out. She was getting the initial start up screen (grey Apple, spinning wheel) and once in every ten times or more actually getting into her hard disk. Anyway after a bunch of tests I narrowed the problem down to the hard disk (40 gig, I think). The disc is basically presenting all the symptoms of a damaged disc. I can not even wipe and reinstall on it. When I start up from the Panther system CD, it runs normally, up to the point where I tell it to install, it goes to the next screen where you choose your destination disc, and shows, nothing! Disk Utility on the install disc sees the hard disk and identifies it as an IBM, but the single partition with Panther installed is greyed out. I tells me that the disk can't be wiped because of an ERROR -20. I also tried mounting it on my G4 as a firewire external, and in fact managed to rescue the data, (though it took an hour to transfer 250 kb of data). I even tried to wipe it in my own machine as an external disc, but again the same problem. Strangely enough Disk Utility says the disc does not need repair.
Anyway, I decided to change the disk and be done with it. But as I say I have very little hardware experience with laptops, and the Apple support pages don't have any documents that show the internal workings of the iBook, except for how to change memory and install Airport cards. Aside from the fact that I still have to figure out where to find a new disc for the machine, I don't really want to open it up until I can check some instructions.
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It's not an easy thing to do. Arm yourself with a tiny screwdriver and loads of patience:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/50.12.0.html
http://www.powerbooktech.com/knowledge,name-Hard-Drive,type-6.htm
http://uk.geocities.com/ibookupgrade/
http://sterpin.net/uk/ddibookdualuk.htm
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I have the latest Mac Air 13" and I have a Seagate 500MB external hard disk I cant copy or Cut any files on the hard disk and I cant even delete any files. I have the settings as Read and Write in the get info tab. Please help

I have the latest Mac Air 13" and I have a Seagate 500MB external hard disk I cant copy or Cut any files on the hard disk and I cant even delete any files. I have the settings as Read and Write in the get info tab. Please helpand also note that my hard drive was formatted on a Windows 7 Laptop.

thats the problem, its in MSDos (Fat) or NTFS for Windows.
Options.....
1. offload all that data on the HD onto your PC, THEN format the HD in EXFAT for use on BOTH PC and Mac for read/write.....then reload all (or as you need) that data back onto the HD
2. get another HD, and format it for Mac OSX extended journaled.
FAT32 (File Allocation Table)
Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
Maximum file size: 4GB.
Maximum volume size: 2TB
You can use this format if you share the drive between Mac OS X and Windows computers and have no files larger than 4GB.
NTFS (Windows NT File System)
Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X, here are some alternatives:
For Mac OS X 10.4 or later (32 or 64-bit), install Paragon (approx $20) (Best Choice for Lion)
Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard and Lion, but is not advisable, due to instability.
AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support NTFS
Maximum file size: 16 TB
Maximum volume size: 256TB
You can use this format if you routinely share a drive with multiple Windows systems.
HFS+ ((((MAC FORMAT))) (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Don't use case-sensitive)
Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X
Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! backups of Mac internal hard drive.
To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
Maximum file size: 8EiB
Maximum volume size: 8EiB
You can use this format if you only use the drive with Mac OS X, or use it for backups of your Mac OS X internal drive, or if you only share it with one Windows PC (with MacDrive installed on the PC)
EXFAT (FAT64) ------Can read/write from both PC and Mac
Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later.
Not all Windows versions support exFAT.
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table)
AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support exFAT
Maximum file size: 16 EiB
Maximum volume size: 64 ZiB
You can use this format if it is supported by all computers with which you intend to share the drive. See "disadvantages" for details.

Hello Everyone, I have a MacBook older model with me.I am running 10.7.6 on that, I was trying to use BootCamp to install windows on my mac. Since BootCamp can only work on a single Volume, I partitioned my Hard Disk to one volume. Using BootCamp I

Hello Everyone,
I have a MacBook older model with me.I am running 10.7.6 on that, I was trying to use BootCamp to install windows on my mac. Since BootCamp can only work on a single Volume, I partitioned my Hard Disk to one volume.
Using BootCamp I installed windows and everything worked fine. After installing windows and testing everything, I switched back to OS X and this time I tried to make another partition on my single portioned Mac volume and named it Backup. That too worked. Now I have three Volumes
1)Development2)Backup3)BootCamp.
Next when I switched to Windows, It should the classic error, No Bootable device found, please insert a Bootable CD and press any key. When I tried to enter my Mac OS X install DVD and by pressing option key, it does not show me the proper Mac OS X development volume. It keeps going back to the No bootable device found message.
Any help will be much appreciated
Regards
Mithun

you can't add a partition in between - you put Windows to a new partition number.
GPT (GUID)
EFI
Mac HFS
Lion Recovery
Windows
And now you have two HFS
One partition and one Windows (plus Lion Recovery).
If you were to have more, it can't be before Windows for one thing.

Folders that I copy from my Macbook to my External Hard Disk does NOT appear on any other drive that I connect the Hard disk to (TV, PC, ... etc.)

I'm facing a bit of a problem.
Any folder I copy from my Macbook Pro to my External Hard Disk does NOT appear on any other device that I connect the Hard Disk to (TV, PC, etc).
The Hard disk format is "MS-DOS (FAT)".
The folders that are copied from Macbook appear when I connect the Hard Disk to my Macbook only, yet, the folders that I copy from a PC to the Hard Disk appear on Macbook, PC, and TV and are also available from editing from both Mac and PC.
I was advised to install "Paragon" software and I did but I'm not sure how to use it to convert the folders on the hard drive to any format that can be read on other drives or devices (NTFS or otherwise).
I'd appreciate some help. Thank you.

Hi Simon. How is it formatted, FAT or NTFS?
I only ask as OSX will only read NTFS partitions unless you install an App such as Paragon NTFS or Tuxera NTFS.

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