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Re: dos compatibility flag
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: dos compatibility flag |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:49:38 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:06:17PM -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> Hello,
> In fdisk you can toggle a dos compatibility flag. Is there
> such a flag in parted? Is there away for one to toggle such a
> flag in parted or with libparted?
I had a look at fdisk.
If the flag is set, then partitions starting/ending above cylinder 1023
have their cylinder set to 1023 in the partition table. If it isn't
set, the cylinder is set to (cyl % 1024).
Parted's behaviour always matches fdisk's "dos compatibility flag"
behaviour. I am not aware of any reasons why you would ever not
want to behave like this. libparted has no option to "disable" this
behaviour.
Cheers,
Andrew