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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:50:49 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.40 etc and IDE HDisk geometry
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:47:16PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:

> Question is - what is determining that initial value that becomes the "logical"
> CHS, and does it matter?

No, it does not matter at all.
CHS are meaningless numbers not used anywhere anymore in Linux.

If you want to influence what geometry *fdisk will use, give it
the appropriate options or commands. No need to go via the kernel.
But only in rare cases is it necessary to worry about geometry.

Andries

> Aside - RedHat has dropped cfdisk from util-linux in their distro versions 7.2 ff.
> Given the bad words said about fdisk, what did cfdisk do to be ostracised?

RedHat thought cfdisk is buggy.
They were mistaken.
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