quick lesson in calculating disk space needed
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue May 11 20:58:10 UTC 2004
Dana Holland wrote:
> If my fdisk -l looks like this:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 35694 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
> /dev/sda2 6 332 2626627+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/sda3 * 333 345 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda4 346 35694 283940842+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5 346 21245 167879218+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 21246 28211 55954363+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 28212 35178 55962396 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 35179 35309 1052226 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 35310 35440 1052226 83 Linux
> /dev/sda10 35441 35694 2040223+ 82 Linux swap
>
> Would it be correct to calculate the amount of disk space on my system
> by multiplying 16065 times 512, and then multiplying that result by 35694?
Yes. I read that as a 294GB hard drive. Under FC1, the calculations
are done for you:
[root at prophead tmp]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 131 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 132 5353 41945715 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 5354 10575 41945715 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 10576 19929 75136005 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 10576 11097 4192933+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 11098 11228 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 11229 19929 69890751 83 Linux
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