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Disk addresses in MB
From: |
Mathias Koerber |
Subject: |
Disk addresses in MB |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jul 2002 22:16:20 +0800 |
Ihave just started looking into parted and
am very confused by parted's use of fractional MBs
to specify and print disk addresses.
Traditional fdisk shows clusters, sectors etc.
Is there some advanced documentation on why parted
is using MBs and how to convert between these so that
exact disk-addresses can be known?
Example:
# /usr/local/sbin/parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-11513.250 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 62.753 primary ext3 boot
2 62.754 188.261 primary linux-swap
3 188.262 1686.511 primary ext3
4 1686.511 11507.497 extended
5 1686.542 3184.760 logical ext3
6 3184.792 4180.979 logical ext3
7 4181.010 4683.010 logical ext3
8 4683.041 5185.041 logical ext3
9 5185.072 5687.072 logical ext3
10 5687.104 6087.128 logical ext3
11 6087.160 6487.185 logical ext3
12 6487.216 6785.266 logical ext3
Partition8 ends at 5185.041 and partition 9
starts at 5185.072. What´s with the .031 MB
in between? In some cases, (between 10 and 11)
it´s 0.32MB..
Wouldn´t it be much easierand more exact to
specify sectors, clusters etc which simply
cannot be fractional?
rgds
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