On 22-Dec-00 Bret Hughes wrote:
> 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?
no, it's not a "bad" thing. It means that due to the sizes you specified for
the partition, fdisk needed to allocate part of a cylinder (and the rest of
that cylinder is waster/unused).
This is your clue (when you are running fdisk) that you might want to increase
the size of the partition, to be able to claim the rest of the cylinder. (it's
essentially free space that otherwise goes unused).
-Greg
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Date: 22-Dec-00
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