HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

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disktab(4) 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
SEE ALSO
newfs(1M), getdiskbyname(3C).
Section 446 1 HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000
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