[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

[David W. Hodgins]

On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:03:34 -0400, blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morgan Leijström wrote:
>> It would also be interesting to know what other tools say.
>> gparted?

> Gparted looks pretty.  As far as I can see, gparted agrees
> with what I think things should look like.  Gparted and
> fdisk agree about the number of sectors.  (More than you
> get by multiplying CxHxS.)

Interesting.  I guess it would be best to use 'hdparm -i /dev/sda|grep LBAsects"
to find out the number of sectors.

Regards, Dave Hodgins