From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:50:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021004215049.GA20192@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D9D9BE4.32421A87@bigpond.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-04 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-04 13:47 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry Allan Duncan
2002-10-04 21:50 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2002-10-05 19:30 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-10-06 21:48 ` Allan Duncan
2002-10-06 23:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-10-07 0:19 ` Werner Almesberger
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