Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:26:28 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/fdisk fdisk.c Message-ID: <10581.1048976788@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:10:52 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303291408451.4536-100000@root.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303291408451.4536-100000@root.org>, Nate Lawson writ es: >On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Modified files: >> sbin/fdisk fdisk.c >> Log: >> Use default geometry in case the device doesn't provide one: >> 512 for sectorsize. >> 63 for sectors. >> 255 for heads. >> This will mostly show up on MD(4) devices. > >Won't this be a problem for small devices or for int 13 booting? That's >why we use 64 heads, 32 sectors for scsi devices < 1 GB. You can specify any number you like to fdisk using all the usual ways of doing so, and you should if you want to copy the image to some other media afterwards. These defaults are only here to prevent fdisk from crashing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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