can anyone out there tell me how many bytes per cylinder there are on a HD? I'm trying to partition for Redhat. I need to set the swap, but don't know how many cylinders makes up 512 meg.
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can anyone out there tell me how many bytes per cylinder there are on a HD? I'm trying to partition for Redhat. I need to set the swap, but don't know how many cylinders makes up 512 meg.
Acording to http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/step/1,...+18785,00.html
This information can be gleaned from the outside labels of the drive, the drive documentation and from certain programs (of which, the MSDOS FDisk is not one) such as PartitionMagic(tm), the Linux versions of FDisk and many of the partitioning programs associated with Linux and other Operating Systems.
I think that if you multiply the number of heads by the number of sectors multiplied by 512(bytes) you can get the cylinder size.
Heads *Sectors*512=Cylinder size
Hope this helps,
Bug_
Why do you need to choose the number of cylinders for partitioning for Red Hat? What partition manager are you using? I don't recall which one I used when I set up my RH workstations, but I simply chose the logical partition sizes and it did the rest for me.
AJ