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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> No, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk do not use HDIO_GETGEO_BIG.
> And indeed, the ioctl is completely meaningless.

In many current distributions (e.g. from Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera)
they do.