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Offline orangeTopic starter

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mountlist and total number of blocks
« on: October 10, 2007, 09:46:35 PM »
Is it possible to calculate total number of blocks for given device (HDD) from mountlist?
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Re: mountlist and total number of blocks
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2007, 11:57:15 PM »
Yes.

 Just some calculation is needed:

 Multiply the number of sectors with number of cylinders with the number of bytes per sectors (usually 512).

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Offline Thomas

Re: mountlist and total number of blocks
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2007, 06:44:35 AM »

The correct calculation using mountlist terminology is:

(HighCyl - LowCyl + 1) * Surfaces * SectorsPerTrack * SectorSize

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