From 53392050357d0292e41019414651b63ddc341660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Pengelly <robertapengelly@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:13:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Updated explaination
---
parted.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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;
--
2.34.1