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From: Timothy Moore <moore@WOLFENET.com>
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Subject: fdisk questions
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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