How many bytes in a cylinder is dependent on the geometry of the device. For the common 3390-3, you are looking at 15 tracks of 56,664 bytes, maximum, for a total of 849,960 bytes per cylinder.
formated for 4K page sizes, your usable space is 744,480 bytes/cylinder -----Original Message----- From: Alex Leyva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cyls vs bytes Hi all, i have some questions about disk space and i think that this is the right place to ask: -how much bytes are 1 cyl? -how could i calculate the cyls needed to have x mb for swap and for disk space formmated with ext2 and 3? thanks -- Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich. Jefe de la Unidad Departamental de Soporte Ticnico (Administracisn de Mainframe). Direccisn General de Informatica. Secretarma de Finanzas. Gobierno del Distrito Federal. Confidentiality Warning: This e-mail contains information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, any dissemination, publication or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. The sender does not accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer system that may occur while using data contained in, or transmitted with, this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by return e-mail. Thank you.
