disktab(4)

NAME

disktab — disk description file

SYNOPSIS

#include <disktab.h>

DESCRIPTION

disktab is a simple database that describes disk geometries. Entries in disktab consist of a number of colon-separated fields. The first entry for each disk gives the names by which the disk is known, separated by vertical bar (|) characters.

This file is provided for backward compatibility with previous HP-UX releases only. Its use is discouraged.

The following list indicates the normal values stored for each disk entry. Sectors are of size DEV_BSIZE, defined in <sys/param.h>.

Name	Type	Description
ns	num	Number of sectors per track
nt	num	Number of tracks per cylinder
nc	num	Total number of cylinders on the disk
b0	num	Block size (bytes)
f0	num	Fragment size (bytes)
s0	num	Size of disk in sectors
rm	num	Revolution per minute

Example:

HP_7914:
    :132.1 MB:ns#16:nt#7:nc#1152:\
    :s0#129024:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
    :se#256:rm#3600:

AUTHOR

disktab was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

/etc/disktab

disktab(4)

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