[techtalk] Re: techtalk-digest V1 #90

[Jeff Dike]

> >       grep hdb /var/log/messages|more
> >     is better.  It tells you what the disk told the OS when it booted.
> Bingo.  Thanks, Jeff! 

Actually, this is probably the right way to do it:

hdparm -g /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
 geometry     = 1048/16/63, sectors = 1056992, start = 0

Multiply sectors by 512 to get bytes.

				Jeff



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