disktab(4)disktab(4)NAMEdisktab - disk description file
SYNOPSISDESCRIPTION
is a simple database that describes disk geometries. Entries in con‐
sist 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 defined in
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:
AUTHOR
was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.
FILESSEE ALSOnewfs(1M), getdiskbyname(3C).
disktab(4)