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Aldo Foot wrote:
> The fdisk command displays some partitions with a plus sign in the
> Bocks number.
not shown in 'man fdisk', but, from 'man sfdisk'
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2045 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 0+ 406 407- 205096+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc2 407 813 407 205128 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc3 814 2044 1231 620424 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
%
The trailing - and + signs indicate that rounding has taken place, and
that the actual value is slightly less (more). To see the exact val-
ues, ask for a listing with sectors as unit.
oops. hit send too quick.
when partitions are built, and you do not build them in even block size, a
'+' or '-' occurs.
when you resize, and if you build in even blocks, they will disappear.
hth.
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in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
learn linux:
'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/
'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/
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