rpjday wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote:
> >
> > > From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was
> > > configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should
> > > there be any room left... I have one partition set on my servers to
> > > expand, I'm not sure what the details are on the expansion... (wether it
> > > only expands as needed or just when there is extra space, it automatically
> > > claims it.. ) Hope this helps.
> > >
> > nope, that ain't it. first, why should there be *any* connection
> > between making a partition growable during a linux install and what
> > kind of attributes that partition gets on the disk afterwards?
> >
> > second, i just checked, and an explicitly-sized /boot partition
> > on one of my hosts has the "+".
> >
> > i still think it has to do with not being on an even cylinder
> > boundary.
>
>
Is that a bad thing? Perhaps recovery from some sort of low level problem might
be easier ro what? I have these also. I think I usually set partition sizes in
MB. Should I be doing some thing different? If not why bother to code for it?
TIA
Bret
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