HDIO_GETGEO vs. BLKGETSIZE

[Andries Brouwer]

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:21:53PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> aeb at veritas.com said:
> > A modern fdisk will use the values for heads and sectors/track given
> > by HDIO_GETGEO, but ignore the value for cylinders.
> 
> > Instead, the number of cylinders is computed as BLKGETSIZE/(H*S).

> What if BLKGETSIZE/(H*S) isn't an integer?

/ is the C operator. It rounds down.


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