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?
from once perusing the source code, it means that that partition
does not end on an even cylinder boundary, or something to that
effect. no big deal.
rday
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