From: cfs@mathcs.emory.edu (Charles Stephens (guest - exp 9/1/93)) Subject: Re: How to optimize HardDisk size ? Date: 1 Aug 1993 08:14:39 GMT
Hong Yeh Ryan Wong (f3b192@rick.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
: Hi, just recently, I realized that partition created by
: fdisk in linux does not optimize the actual size of the
: HD. How could one do so ?
: For example, say Western-Digital 340 M, (1010 cylinder, 12 heads
: 55 sectors). In CMOS, it shows 325 M. But how do I make fdisk
: intelligent enough to fully use up the 340 M. I remember dos
: format will do that, I wonder how do I do the same thing using
: mke2fs or fdisk ?
Ahhh, you have been duped by the famous "million(mega)bytes" vs.
"megabytes" scam. Many HD manufacturers (Seagate, WD, etc) advertise
their HD sizes in units of a million bytes (1,000,000). CMOS tells the
truth when it converts it (actually it doesn't do any actual converting,
it just knows better) to the proper unit of a megabyte (1,048,576).
Fdisk is also not fibbing. So you will have to live with your 325M drive!