On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Dale Snell wrote: > According to the cfdisk(8) man page, the asterisk means that the partition > is not aligned on a cylinder boundary. I'm not sure that's really > important these days. If you need a DOS partition, perhaps, but Linux > doesn't care.
Dale, Yes, I saw this. > This shouldn't be related to the partition alignment at all. Other than > that, I'm not sure what to say. What do you mean by "quick format"? Slackware allows a quick format that does not check for bad blocks. When I specify that for sda1 mounted on /, control returns immediately. When I specify that for sda3 mounted on /home, there's the usualy delay as the fs is installed on the partition. Think I need to check for bad blocks on sda1 because I get the error of insufficient disk space on sda1 and that should not be the case. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
