Re: [CentOS] fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
thanks for the explanations, folks! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:06 -0400: > > > As to loss, maybe yes. When you allocate using multipliers, (10GB, > > 100MB, etc.) the bytes per cylinder is used as a divisor. This *may* > > leave some part of a cylinder u

Re: [CentOS] fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:06 -0400: > As to loss, maybe yes. When you allocate using multipliers, (10GB, > 100MB, etc.) the bytes per cylinder is used as a divisor. This *may* > leave some part of a cylinder unused at the end. With todays drive > sizes, even anal me doesn't

Re: [CentOS] fdisk partition table plus sign

2008-04-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > What does the plus sign after the blocks value exactly mean in the fdisk > output? Some research reveals that it indicates that not all the blocks > are included in the fdisk value. But what does this exactly mean? IIRC, it means that the