FDISK output question -- OT
DAK GHATIKACHALAM
dakfreebsd at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 07:02:31 UTC 2007
On 2/28/07, Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:09 am, DAK GHATIKACHALAM wrote:
> > Hi Freebsd
> >
> > Question about FDISK
> >
> > Do you have an idea what does that '+' means in Blocks
> > columns
> >
> > as seen below it is 419425019+
> >
> > Does it signify anything , because for certain disks I do not
> > see that '+' as the end of blocks?
> >
> I believe you are posting to the wrong list. This list is about
> FreeBSD which is a form of BSD unix -- not Linux.
I never believed that Linux( for the reasons there are just around for past
12 years only ) community would be as technically savvy as bsd unix
community.
so I never subscribed to any linux community. But we cant control the whole
world,
In professional world we always happened to work in cross platforms ( like
me personally my laptop is on freebsd, but my work place is using Linux,
Windows and Solaris only) , I thought it would not really hurt to ask here
anyway.
The extraneous '+' is a characteristic of the Linux version of
> fdisk. I believe it indicates that the indicated 52216 units do
> not exactly correspond to the 419425019 blocks (but I'm not a
> Linux expert). I believe there is also an option to show more
> detail.
Thanks a lot Malcolm for that input I am going try tomorrow.
Thanks
Dak
Switch to expert mode with 'x' before the 'p' enquiry.
>
> Malcolm
>
> > Thanks
> > Dak
> >
> > [root at kali root]# fdisk /dev/sdk
> >
> > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 52216.
> > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than
> > 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of
> > LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> >
> > Command (m for help): p
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdk: 429.4 GB, 429496729600 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 52216 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdk1 1 52216 419425019+ 83 Linux
> >
> > Command (m for help):
>
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