-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aldo Foot wrote: > The fdisk command displays some partitions with a plus sign in the > Bocks number. not shown in 'man fdisk', but, from 'man sfdisk' Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 2045 cylinders Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 0+ 406 407- 205096+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 407 813 407 205128 83 Linux native /dev/hdc3 814 2044 1231 620424 83 Linux native /dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty % The trailing - and + signs indicate that rounding has taken place, and that the actual value is slightly less (more). To see the exact val- ues, ask for a listing with sectors as unit. hth. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI5sbk+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAkt7AJwLd7BBBQ2FkuVoArXXooQAtgJRBgCfZ2WD CsnOYSXUdobF6PvexIrUCr0= =Pqt3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines