[lug] Cylinders and pertitioning

[Rodger Wilson {I/O Software}]

I tend to bring a lot of solaris disks home, and have found that Linux can use
a VTOC.  Which is nice because you now have 8 real/normal partitions per disk.

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>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:59:48 -0700 (MST)
>From: John Starkey <jstarkey at advancecreations.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: [lug] Cylinders and pertitioning
>
>I'm installing a 20 gig drive that I'd originally used for solaris. The
>drive is set for 2491 cylinders  and I'm trying to get it back to 1024. 
>
>Can anyone tell me how to do this? I used fdisk and set it for 1024 but it
>won't write that setting.    I'd think that merely setting the cylinder
>count would throw off some other setting but I'm not sure how this all
>balances out.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John
>
>
>
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