Subject: Re: disklabel
To: ITOH Yasufumi <yasufu-i@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: None <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/08/1999 12:07:58
yasufu-i@is.aist-nara.ac.jp said:
> If the partition size is not a multiple of cylinder size, the
> remainder part is left unused by FFS. I think this worth warning.
While you might be right about this, such a warning should not
be attached to the end cylinder information imo. Principle of
least surprise or so.
> Since # sectors per track is not fixed on modern disks,
> this is not so meaningful.
The disklabel format is obviously not made for modern disks:-)
best regards
Matthias