How do commands like fdisk -l find the sector size?
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So how do commands like fdisk -l find the sector size of a hard disk?
does the MBR of that disk contain this information? if so, which part of it? what offset?
and if its not in the MBR then how can these types of commands find it? they can't be reading it from the beginning of a partition considering they need to calculate the starting address of that partition and they need the sector size for it?
so how are commands like fdisk implemented to find this information? where do they read it from?
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So how do commands like fdisk -l find the sector size of a hard disk?
does the MBR of that disk contain this information? if so, which part of it? what offset?
and if its not in the MBR then how can these types of commands find it? they can't be reading it from the beginning of a partition considering they need to calculate the starting address of that partition and they need the sector size for it?
so how are commands like fdisk implemented to find this information? where do they read it from?
linux hard-disk command disk cluster
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So how do commands like fdisk -l find the sector size of a hard disk?
does the MBR of that disk contain this information? if so, which part of it? what offset?
and if its not in the MBR then how can these types of commands find it? they can't be reading it from the beginning of a partition considering they need to calculate the starting address of that partition and they need the sector size for it?
so how are commands like fdisk implemented to find this information? where do they read it from?
linux hard-disk command disk cluster
asked 1 min ago
John P
1698
So how do commands like fdisk -l find the sector size of a hard disk?
does the MBR of that disk contain this information? if so, which part of it? what offset?
and if its not in the MBR then how can these types of commands find it? they can't be reading it from the beginning of a partition considering they need to calculate the starting address of that partition and they need the sector size for it?
so how are commands like fdisk implemented to find this information? where do they read it from?
linux hard-disk command disk cluster
linux hard-disk command disk cluster
asked 1 min ago
John P
1698
asked 1 min ago
John P
1698
asked 1 min ago
John P
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asked 1 min ago
John P
1698
asked 1 min ago
John P
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