Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:50:49 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry |
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:47:16PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
> Question is - what is determining that initial value that becomes the "logical" > CHS, and does it matter?
No, it does not matter at all. CHS are meaningless numbers not used anywhere anymore in Linux.
If you want to influence what geometry *fdisk will use, give it the appropriate options or commands. No need to go via the kernel. But only in rare cases is it necessary to worry about geometry.
Andries
> Aside - RedHat has dropped cfdisk from util-linux in their distro versions 7.2 ff. > Given the bad words said about fdisk, what did cfdisk do to be ostracised?
RedHat thought cfdisk is buggy. They were mistaken. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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