On 02/21/2012 12:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Running cfdisk on a new machine. There are 3 partitions: sda1 is 300G, > sda2 is 8G swap, and sda3 is 192G. There's an asterisk next to the size on > sda3; what does this mean? > > When the installation disk asks to format each partition and I select the > quick check with ext3 as the filesystem, sda1 completes very quickly but > sda3 takes a very long time. It's as though a quick format cannot be done on > this partition. Is this related to the asterisk after the size? > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
From the man page for cfdisk (from Fedora 15) If a partition does not start or end on a cylinder boundary or if the partition length is not divisible by the cylinder size, an asterisk (*) is printed after the non-aligned sector num‐ ber/count. This usually indicates that a partition was created by an operating system that either does not align partitions to cylinder boundaries or that used different disk geometry infor‐ mation. If you know the disk geometry of the other operating system, you could enter the geometry information with the change geometry command (g). -- ~~R _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
