From: Robert Pengelly Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:13:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Updated explaination X-Git-Url: https://git.candlhat.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;p=parted.git Updated explaination --- diff --git a/parted.c b/parted.c index a369b38..7c32f18 100644 --- a/parted.c +++ b/parted.c @@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ static void calculate_geometry (void) { #else /** - * Ideally we'd have a new size of 41,954,304 for the image as Pcem and - * 86box reports 81940 sectors and times by 512 equals 41,953,280 add 512 - * bytes for the mbr and 512 for the VHD footer however qemu seems to report - * different disk geometry compared to PCem and 86box resuling to 81900 - * sectors being reported instead so we need to make the image way bigger - * than it needs to be to accommodate qemu. + * Ideally we'd have a new size of 41,954,304 (for a 40 MB partition) for the + * image as Pcem and 86box reports 81940 sectors and times by 512 equals + * 41,953,280 add 512 bytes for the mbr and 512 for the VHD footer however + * qemu seems to report different disk geometry compared to PCem and 86box + * resuling to 81900 sectors being reported instead so we need to make the + * image way bigger than it needs to be to accommodate qemu. */ state->image_size = (cylinders * heads_per_cylinder) * sectors_per_track;