Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 18:48:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: gmoravszky@tinet.ch Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Extra HDD space ??? Message-ID: <199506050148.SAA18829@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9506042219.AA27881@cioccolato.tinet.ch> from "Gy. Moravszky" at Jun 5, 95 00:05:57 am
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> BIOS geometry: 255cyls/255heads/63sectors > > Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 16002 16064 sd0s3 1 unknown 10 > 16065 2056320 2072384 sd0s2 2 fat 6 > 2072385 1012095 3084479 sd0s1 4 extended 5 > 3084480 1012095 4096574 ds0s4 1 unknown 22 > 4096575 12025 4108599 - 6 unused 0 Those 12025 correspond to the last partial cylinder. 4180600 % (255*63) = 12025 It's simply because the virtual geometry of the disk does not evenly divide into the disks size, and something gets left over. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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