Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread Sven Burgener
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:43PM +1300, C. Falconer wrote: > C * H * S * kilobytes per sector Just what I needed. Cheers. Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux aka "The Rock"

Re: calculating disk space

2000-10-20 Thread C. Falconer
Multiply them together C * H * S * kilobytes per sector sector size is normally 512 bytes/sector. caffeine:~# fdisk /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes caffeine:~# bc 255*63*1048*.5 8418060.0 <-- 8ish Gb At 11:20 PM 10/19/00 +

calculating disk space

2000-10-19 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello all How can one calculate the amount of space a hard disk provides given only the disk's CHS values? Cheers Sven