DragonFly bugs List (threaded) for 2004-07
[
Date Prev][
Date Next]
[
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index]
Re: Installer partition sizing bug
:Thanks!
:
:This by the way might be a good point to ask the following question. When I
:repartitioned my hard disk after the mess the installer made of it, I
:noticed that DragonFly's fdisk prints out the cluster numbers of the slices
:modulo 1024. So, e.g., if the cluster number should be 1825, it prints 801.
:Is this intended behaviour, or something from old times in which hard disks
:did not have more than 1024 clusters?
:
:Jeroen Ketema
Oh yes, its definitely legacy behavior. There are several disk layout
formats and BIOSes have varying degrees of compatibility so fdisk is
being 'safe'. fdisk itself is a rather old piece of software too, but
the real problem is still (as always) trying to maintain compatibility
with as many BIOSes out there as possible.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[
Date Prev][
Date Next]
[
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index]