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- Sector numbers are used to divide a hard disk into partitions.
- For example, /dev/hda (the entire first IDE hard drive) may have
- sectors 1 - 624 available, but /dev/hda1 (the first partition on
- /dev/hda) may only use sectors 1 - 250, and /dev/hda2 (the second
- partition on /dev/hda) may use sectors 250 - 624. Specific partitions
- are defined in this manner on the actual hard drive.
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- Depending on your hard drive, one sector may occupy different amounts
- of space. So, specifying /dev/hda1 as using sectors 1 - 250 may add
- up to 750 megabytes on one drive, whereas on another drive it may add
- up to 1,000 megabytes.
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