Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Dec 1999 05:52:58 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:59:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Now I create one big partition for the disk: > > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 16383 8257000+ 83 Linux > > However the result partition is somewhat smaller than the expected > 13Gb: > > /dev/hda1 7.8G 20k 7.4G 0% /mnt
But you just told fdisk that the disk is 8.5 GB. So this is entirely as expected.
16*63*16383*512=8455200768
The CHS = 16383/16/63 is an agreement. It means: this is a modern disk. No geometry nonsense. It does not tell you the actual disk size.
Andries
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