On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:34 PM, g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> oops. hit send too quick.
>
> when partitions are built, and you do not build them in even block size, a
> '+' or '-' occurs.
>
> when you resize, and if you build in even blocks, they will disappear.
Ah! I see your point It makes sense.
Here's some more digging I did just to understand this.
Please excuse the long, informative follow up, but is needed to
get the whole picture.
I used fdisk to create new partitions. I wanted to create
the filesystem and check for bad blocks in one shot, but
the operation failed.
root@orion> /sbin/mkfs -c -v -t ext3 /dev/sdc7
mke2fs 1.40.4 (31-Dec-2007)
mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/sdc7
from "man badblocks"
"Important note: If the output of badblocks is going to be fed to the
e2fsck or mke2fs programs, it is important that the block size is prop-
erly specified
since the block numbers which are generated are very
dependent on the block size in use by the filesystem. For this reason,
it is strongly recommended that users not run badblocks directly, but
rather use the -c option of the e2fsck and mke2fs programs."
Badblocks will work if used directly on the device
root@orion> badblocks -nv /dev/sdc7
Checking for bad blocks in non-destructive read-write mode
>From block 0 to 6249253
Testing with random pattern: Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found.
Here is the output in both Cylinders and Sectors from fdisk.
The Cylinders output show no gaps at the Start-End points.
The Sectors output does show gaps starting with /dev/sdb3, which
is the first partition I added with fdisk.
CYLINDERS
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 128 2039 15358140 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2040 2294 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 2295 9729 59721637+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 2295 3569 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 3570 4844 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 4845 9729 39238731 83 Linux
SECTORS
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 2040254 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2040255 32756534 15358140 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 32756535 36853109 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 36853110 156296384 59721637+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 36853173 57335984 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 57336048 77818859 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 77818923 156296384 39238731 83 Linux
I guess it would be more accurate to go by cylinders. But I'd have to
convert the units to megabytes in order to get the partition size I
want...
Now, where did I put that calculator? :-)
~af
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