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Aldo Foot wrote:
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Ah! I see your point It makes sense.
Here's some more digging I did just to understand this.
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I guess it would be more accurate to go by cylinders. But I'd have to
convert the units to megabytes in order to get the
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aldo Foot wrote:
I guess it would be more accurate to go by cylinders. But I'd have to
convert the units to megabytes in order to get the partition size I
want...
ok. so just what it is that you are trying to do?
get even
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Aldo Foot wrote:
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Yes the idea is to have a clean partition layout.
In the initial email I sent I asked about the relevance of having the +/-
in the partitions when it comes to resizing and manipulating volumes
and raid disks.
in setting up
The fdisk command displays some partitions with a plus sign in the Bocks number.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Device Boot Start End BlocksId System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2128 203915358140 83
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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
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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
