Never said I was perfect.... :) Now I know what it REALLY
means.... Musta just been coincidence that my partitions that were
expandable were also on odd blocks! ROFL But OH what a coincidence! :)
Fred
At 06:03 PM 12/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote:
> >
> > > From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was
> > > configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should
> > > there be any room left... I have one partition set on my servers to
> > > expand, I'm not sure what the details are on the expansion... (wether it
> > > only expands as needed or just when there is extra space, it
> automatically
> > > claims it.. ) Hope this helps.
> > >
> > nope, that ain't it. first, why should there be *any* connection
> > between making a partition growable during a linux install and what
> > kind of attributes that partition gets on the disk afterwards?
> >
> > second, i just checked, and an explicitly-sized /boot partition
> > on one of my hosts has the "+".
> >
> > i still think it has to do with not being on an even cylinder
> > boundary.
>
>ok. when in doubt, read the source. just grabbed the util-linux
>RPM and installed it, zipping thru fdisk.c (if you'd like to follow
>along, the salient code starts at line 1388, and contains the
>following excerpt:
>
>
>
> printf(_("%*s Boot Start End Blocks Id System\n"),
> w+1, _("Device"));
>
> for (i = 0 ; i < partitions; i++) {
> struct pte *pe = &ptes[i];
>
> p = pe->part_table;
> if (p->sys_ind) {
> unsigned int psects = get_nr_sects(p);
> unsigned int pblocks = psects;
> unsigned int podd = 0;
>
> if (sector_size < 1024) {
> pblocks /= (1024 / sector_size);
> podd = psects % (1024 / sector_size);
> }
>
>... some stuff deleted ...
>
>/* odd flag on end */ (long) pblocks, podd ? '+' : ' ', <== AHA!!!!!
>/* type id */ p->sys_ind,
>/* type name */ (type = partition_type(p->sys_ind)) ?
> type : _("Unknown"));
> check_consistency(p, i);
> }
> }
>
> so a '+' is printed when the partition is not an even number of
>*logical* blocks.
>
>rday
>
>
>
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