On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:56:51PM -0500, 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?
A disk sector is half a block. You've got an odd number of sectors in
the partition ((556 - 523) * 255 * 63).
Cheers,
Nalin
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