root@gentoo-mips-20040627 colo-1.22 # fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 77545.
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): p
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 98 49360+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 99 77545 39033288 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 99 19475 9765976+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 19476 20468 500440+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 20469 77545 28766776+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help):