Re: How to determine the size of cylinder?
From: Lew Pitcher (lpitcher_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/30/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:57:21 -0500
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linuxquestion@yahoo.com wrote:
> Dear experts,
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> - for a given hard drive, how can I tell the size of the cylinder?
For the purposes of partition placement, fdisk will tell you the 'size of the
cylinder' of any installed hard drive
~ $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Or, you can examine the contents of /proc/ide/<drive_id>/geometry
~ $ cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry
physical 39703/16/63
logical 2491/255/63
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