rendered paste body$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Last login: Wed Apr 23 23:39:21 CST 2008 from alex-ibm on pts/1
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009472c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7 12 48195 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 * 13 586 4610655 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4 587 9729 73441147+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 587 3136 20482812 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3137 3149 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 3150 4630 11896101 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 4631 9729 40957686 83 Linux
# cat winxp_sda_grub.vmdk.bak
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=aeca8d13
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"
# Extent description
RW 156301488 FLAT "/dev/sda"
# The disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="16383"
ddb.geometry.heads="16"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="d9a8f255-55a2-49f9-608f-bd059b6e9268"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
# cat winxp_sda_grub.vmdk
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=aeca8d13
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="fullDevice"
# Extent description
RW 156301488 FLAT "/dev/sda"
# The disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.adapterType="ide"
ddb.geometry.cylinders="9729"
ddb.geometry.heads="255"
ddb.geometry.sectors="63"
ddb.uuid.image="d9a8f255-55a2-49f9-608f-bd059b6e9268"
ddb.uuid.parent="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
ddb.uuid.modification="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"