HDIO_GETGEO vs. BLKGETSIZE

[Andries Brouwer]

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:47:16PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> aeb at veritas.com said:
> > > What if BLKGETSIZE/(H*S) isn't an integer?
> > / is the C operator. It rounds down. 
> 
> Sorry, what I meant to say was:
> 
> What if (BLKGETSIZE / (H*S)) * (H*S) != BLKGETSIZE?
> 
> Is there anything that's likely to get confused by that?

No. It happens all the time:

# hdparm -g /dev/hda
 geometry     = 2100/255/63, sectors = 33750864, start = 0

and 2100*255*63 = 33736500 < 33750864.
It just means that if you use an fdisk that likes partitions
to start and end on cylinder boundaries, the last partial
cylinder is wasted. In this case that would be 7 MB.

Andries



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