David Haller a écrit :
these as such. Show the complete 'fdisk -l' output (via PM) ...
shows exacltly the same thing I posted in my first post. This discussion is very interesting, even if it go much more complicated I thought initially. I'm the "Partition Rescue" LDP HOWTO author and become recently the LDP coordinator. I was sometime asked to include my HOWTO in the Partition HOWTO and, as the Partition HOWTO author didn't want to continue with it I decided to take the HOWTO authorship. But the present HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html looks to me much too old, given all the new partitionning tools and disk usage we have now, so I began rewriting all this. It's *not* yet done. Drafts are here http://wiki.tldp.org/Partitions-and-mass-storage-HOWTO Some years ago, I made a course and for my students sake made use of loop mounted files as partition and file system testbed. I may use this also now for examples, but it's also easy to use usb keys, now so cheap user can (eventually) destroy one without real problem :-) But I don't want to write on a subject before understanding it fully. Thas is why I did this post. among others, a curious thing is that I perfectly remember that at the moment LBA was introduced, it was presented as a way to show CHS with fake numbers. I have yet to control this, but ATM most Bioses showed different CHS layout with LBA activated or not, but never shown direct sector numbers. It's only when Linux come than this direct adressing was used and never in partitionning tools. When fdisk advertise the 1024 cylinder barrier, I don't have found PC with this problem for more than 10 years now. My goal is to try making clear the bare minimum necessary to make actual partitionning on fixed and also external disks. as of LBA, this seems pretty cool: http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/lba.htm thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org