From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261582AbVGLQix (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:38:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261587AbVGLQgN (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:36:13 -0400 Received: from web52013.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.96]:58972 "HELO web52013.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261582AbVGLQfT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:35:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rONZXgf/o0Gtj6YiRIzCp6mmsI+uTgaOzL2Gq2AW97OCHjvDL/D9mjlUrfetxM35xnfS5QJbLF8ES4nVAL7ZCCfz6d4XpjaiiU6wSeaWdtjuEszjjqXLLsD2ptEB42CyA46Jp7WGLIwe1jTDVhmWuhudaoq+Jbs4sE9Hasqmz6g= ; Message-ID: <20050712163514.42322.qmail@web52013.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:35:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Konstantin Kudin Subject: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi there, Fdisk on my machine displays the output shown below. Many partitions have pluses after "Blocks". The issue is that during installation on the existing linux setup WinXP screwed up the partition table, and these pluses were very difficult to recreate. Basically, if I remove hda9, and then try to recreate it in fdisk, it loses the plus sign and does not look as before. Also, sometimes fdisk creates a partition with "+", and sometimes it does not. Since I did not want to take any chances, I used Knoppix to read a similar partition table from /dev/hdb using "sfdisk -dx", and then copied it to /dev/hda by using "sfdisk -fx". If I do not force sfdisk by using "-f", it complains that there are some inconsistencies. Can anyone enlighten me what the pluses mean? Also, if a partition loses pluses after "Blocks", would that destroy a RAID array? Thanks! Konstantin ################# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 4 19457 156264255 5 Extended /dev/hda5 4 264 2096451 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 265 2176 15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda7 2177 4088 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda8 4089 7912 30716248+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda9 7913 19457 92735212+ fd Linux raid autodetect ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions – no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/