On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote:
> One of my customers asked me this question, today, and I really didn't
> have an answer...since the same phenomenon appears on my systems, I assume
> them to be normal.
>
> However...here it is. If anyone has an answer, I'd sure love to hear it:
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Here is a capture of 'fdisk' for the boot drive on the front end
> machine...
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1652 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1 712 358816+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 713 713 916 102816 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda3 917 917 1170 128016 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 1024 1171 1652 242928 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 1024 1171 1424 127984+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 1024 1425 1652 114880+ 82 Linux swap
>
> My question is about the "+" signs that appear in the Blocks column
> for hda1 hda5 and hda6. What's that mean?
i once noticed this, and from memory, it means that those partitions
are not on cylinder boundaries. but hey, my memory's failed me before.
rday
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