[PLUG] Hard drive history and restore point question
Karl M. Hegbloom
karlheg at hegbloom.net
Tue Aug 20 21:03:29 UTC 2002
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com> writes:
> If you've got a SCSI drive, there's no quick fix (as far as I know).
> You can use fdisk to display the geometry:
>
> [root]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4425 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Then do the math yourself. On my drive, there are 4425 cylinders, each
> of which has "16065 * 512 bytes":
You could also look at the kernel boot messages with "dmesg", wich are
probably also logged after boot in /var/log someplace.
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