On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, jdd wrote:
Steffen Winterfeldt a écrit :
2012217344/512/46/47 = 1817.813...
2012217344 is the disk size. And that's independent of the 'geometry'.
why should it be? the geometry size is the only available and OS independant.
Geometry values are just gimmick and not really used for anything but for confusing messages.
In fact this number gives 1919 mebibytes (1919*2^20=2012217344) isn't 1919 prime?
I wonder how all this is built. Where are used the 900.096 bytes left?
As has already been posted, 1919 is 101*19; so if you are worried about that disk space, change the geometry to something like 101 heads x 19 sectors/track. Steffen -- Der frühe Wirt holt sich den Wurm. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org