NAME
disktab — disk description file
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>.
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.