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To: slick <plan_b@videotron.ca>
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:27:59 +0100
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Subject: Re: code compatibility between normal and geom methods for
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In message <BDENIKJMJKOAJAMDFLDDCECICAAA.plan_b@videotron.ca>, slick writes:

>	I wrote an fdisk program which uses several read(2) and write(2).

You program needs to realize that disks have sectors.  You cannot
read a single byte from a disk at a time, you need to read an entire
sector and pick the byte out you want.

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