On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:26:30 +0800 (SGT), Gregory Hosler wrote:
>
> >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).
>
> Ok...fine and well...but doesn't the next partition take up the slack
> on that cylinder?
ok, i was wrong when i initially guessed that the "+" meant not on a
cylinder boundary. certainly, linux is not going to waste the remainder
of a cylinder.
all the "+" means is that the partition is not an integral number of
logical blocks -- there's an extra physical block in there as well.
so it's not a big deal.
rday
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