Re: cfdisk on sparc?
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:16:25PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > cfdisk is AFAIK only used to edit DOS or PC-BIOS like partition tables.
> > Sparc computers use their "slices" only, so there's exactly no use for
> > such a partition sector on a Sparc computer's harddisk...
>
> Not true, people can and do use PC style boot blocks on their
> Sparc systems all the time. You just can't use one easily on
> the partition you wish to boot from, that's all.
true ;)
[root@ares undefine]# fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdc |egrep "Disk|cyl"
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8892 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
on my ultra 10, when i connect secondary hdd i can't use there sun
disklabels - it writes that there is too many cylinders or blocks..
with msdos label it works fine.
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Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała
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