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From: soulard@simplet.inria.fr (Herve Soulard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FDISK error on FreeBSD ?
Date: 16 Feb 1995 15:55:42 GMT
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Hi,

I'm installing 2.0-950210-SNAP and when I fdisk my test hard
disk I see the following thing :

	1318 Cyl * 7 Head * 45 Sect = 203 Mb = 415436 Sect.

My calculator says that it should be 415170 Sectors. 

Why this difference ?

		Herve Soulard.