On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, David Wright wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > > [..Deleted stuff for brevity..] > > > Are you merely a stickler for detail, or does it concern you that > > devices exist which have little (if any) practical use and are > > potentially problematic? > > Yes, I'm afraid I'm a stickler for detail. It looks like the (old, if > that's what you used; it's certainly what I used) installation disks are > broken if they have /dev/sda16 on them. If /you/ had created /device/, then > the problem might have only been present on your system. That's what I > understood Philippe to be implying with "BTW, you have created sda16 > yourself didn't you :-)".
I thought of both devices and partitions, neither seemed to fit at the moment (late at night) and it seemed superfluous, so I chose the simpler (partitions), just as a default. <shrug> I used a 2-3 week old LSL official debian 1.3.1 cdrom. So, I suppose that creating 16 scsi devices was merely an oversight, and likewise that creating 20 ide devices was roughly the same, thus devices 16-20 serve no practical purpose (unless obfuscation counts), correct? > > A distantly related question (and equally important, hehe) is why those > > plus signs show up in fdisk -l if the partition ends on an even numbered > > cylinder. > > > > /dev/sdb11 151 151 218 546178+ 83 Linux native > > ^ right there! :-) > > I can't see a reference to + in man fdisk, but there's a reference there to > fuller documentation which I haven't looked up. Here's the elusive answer from /usr/doc/util-linux/README.fdisk.gz : The `+' after the sizes warns that these partitions contain an odd number of sectors: Linux normally allocates filespace in 1 kilobyte blocks. (I cut out some references which were impertinent.) Now that I know, what specifically is the danger of allocating filespace in blocks which do not equal 1 kilobyte and how seriously should this warning be taken? Thanks, David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .