fdisk: plus sign in the blocks number

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Sat Oct 4 17:47:50 UTC 2008


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Aldo Foot wrote:
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> Ah! I see your point It makes sense.
> Here's some more digging I did just to understand this.
<snip>
> 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...

ok. so just what it is that you are trying to do?

get even partitions with out '+' or '-'?

if so, please post *full* output from 'fdisk -l' and 'sfdisk -l'.

it will be easier to help knowing how partitions are being seen.

later.

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