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From: teo yi-wei <yiweiteo@eesn23.ews.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Problem with partitioning
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Hi,

When I was using part to partition my hard disk, and when I did a read on
my hard disk I got this data:
	 --first--	--geom/last-- 	--sectors--
Device   cyl  head  sec	cyl  head  sec	base  size     KB
/dev/hd0 		875  255   63
	  0    0     0  522   42   30    0   8388607   4194303

I am really puzzled by the second row of numbers namely:

522 42 30 0 8388607 4194303

Question:
1. Why is there a difference between the 2 sets of C/H/S numbers i.e.
	875 255 63
and 	522 42  30
Which is the one that correctly describes my hard disk??

2. Also the size and KB numbers are definitely not correct since my hard
disk is 7.2GB. Can someone please explain to me why there is a
discrepancy?

As a result of this, I wasn't able to install a Minix partition at all on
my hard disk as /dev/hd1(Win95 partition) alone takes up 4GB.

Anyone has any tips for me??

Thanks a lot:)

yiwei  	

