On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Steve Snyder wrote:
> When I partition a hard disk I often see the block count for a given
> partition with a trailing "+" sign. Example:
>
> Device Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 523 4200966 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 524 556 265072+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 557 560 32130 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 561 1245 5502262+ 83 Linux
>
> I can't find the meaning of the "+" in the fdisk documentation. Anyone
> know what it indicates?
>
> Thanks.
>
If I remember right, it means that the partition is not aligned on
cylinder boundaries. cfdisk uses an asterisks (*) instead.
Mikkel
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