Re: freespace left after partitioning

From: Trevor Hemsley (Trevor-Hemsley_at_no.spam.dial.pipex.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: 17 Aug 2004 08:38:09 GMT

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:57:18 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Haines Brown
<brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote:

> I just partitioned a disk and it struck me as handy if I knew, in
> megabytes, just how much freespace was left on a disk outside its
> partitions.
>
> Yes, I could run fdisk on the disk, and with the p command display the
> total cylinders on the disk, subtract from it the end cylinder of the
> last partition, and multiply the difference by number of megabytes per
> cylinder as displayed by fdisk.
>
> But there's gotta be an easier way.

libretto:/tmp # fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2432.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): v
144833 unallocated sectors 

-- 
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com

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