Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 22:32:10 -0800 (PST) From: Timothy Moore <moore@WOLFENET.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk questions Message-ID: <199610280632.WAA23290@gonzo.wolfenet.com>
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So, I went ahead and decided to take the fdisk and disklabel approach
to setting up my new drive. I've got a couple of questions about what
happened... Bear with me, I'm a DOS novice.
1) The geometry of the disk as reported by fdisk is:
cylinders=3956 heads=19 sectors/track=111 (2109 blks/cyl)
I set up one partition, partition 0. fdisk displayed the results as:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 1, size 8343203 (4073 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0;
end: cyl 883/ sector 47/ head 18
I'm somewhat surprised at the cylinder number. Is it due to some DOS
limitation?
2) I ran fdisk again on the disk after editing it. Now it reports the
geometry as cylinders=9393 heads=19 sectors/track=47 (893 blks/cyl).
Is that to be expected?
Tim
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