[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

Sat Jul 7 06:08:30 CEST 2012

David W. Hodgins wrote:
+
+> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:03:34 -0400, blind Pete
+> <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 
+>> Morgan Leijström wrote:
+>>> It would also be interesting to know what other tools say.
+>>> gparted?
+> 
+>> Gparted looks pretty.  As far as I can see, gparted agrees
+>> with what I think things should look like.  Gparted and
+>> fdisk agree about the number of sectors.  (More than you
+>> get by multiplying CxHxS.)
+> 
+> Interesting.  I guess it would be best to use 'hdparm -i /dev/sda|grep
+> LBAsects" to find out the number of sectors.
+> 
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+
+[root at live ~]# hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep LBA
+ CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953523055
+[root at live ~]#
+
+Same number of sectors as gparted and fdisk report.  Number of heads 
+and sectors per cylinder are just, "it's a big disk".  _Posssibly_ 
+number of cylinders gives a clue about how big.  H can be 63 or 255, 
+depending on mood, and CxHxS should be a little less than max LBA.  
+
+The situation just got worse.  The latest work arround is to lie 
+about how big a sector is.  That is called "advanced" formatting.  
+
+-- 
+blind Pete
+Sig goes here...  
+
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