On 5 June 2011 12:21, Genes MailLists <li...@sapience.com> wrote: > On 06/04/2011 10:15 PM, David wrote: >> On 5 June 2011 12:07, JD <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 06/04/11 19:02, David wrote: >>>> On 5 June 2011 11:42, JD<jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> I think you can read the kernel source code as well >>>>> as anyone. So you have to do some homework :) >>>> [david@kablamm partition]$ rpm -qf /sbin/mkfs.ext3 >>>> e2fsprogs-1.41.9-5.fc12.i686 >>>> >>>> kernel ? >>> Well, you can peruse the latest mainline kernel source: >>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.39.1.tar.bz2 >> >> Partitioning is done by mkfs variants. Nothing to do with the kernel. > > David no need to keep teasing the mouse .. :-) > > Nothing cares about cylinders on a hard drive after windows 95 (maybe > windows 98) ... everything since then uses LBA so cylinders are > completely irrelevant - its just a historical quirk. > > So fuggit about it .. .:-)
Awww, not teasing, fighting FUD about CHS! But yeah, agree, enuf :-) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
