Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:35:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Konstantin Kudin <> | Subject | fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean? |
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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
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