Re: What does the '+' sign mean in a partition table displayed by fdisk?

On a sunny day (Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:07:29 +0100) it happened Kasper Dupont
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>Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>
>> I put some grml linux on a hdc, plus some other stuff,
>> made table like this, but wonder what the '+' stands for
>> after some partitions?
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hdc1 1 4927 39572715+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hdc2 4927 9791 39072747 83 Linux
>> /dev/hdc3 9791 14593 38572778+ 5 Extended
>> /dev/hdc5 9791 9854 500000+ 82 Linux swap
>> /dev/hdc6 9854 9860 49968+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/hdc7 * 9860 14593 38022715 83 Linux
>
>The size is rounded down to an integral number of 1KB blocks.
>The + just means that the real size is slightly larger than
>the number (must be 512 bytes as that is the smallest unit you
>work with whan partitioning).
OK, got it, thx!
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