fdisk -l Blocks question on + sign

[Scott R Ehrlich]

Quoting Dave Peters <gameslover987-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:

> Hello all,
>
> One question what is the meaning for + sign next to
> Blcoks?
>
> #fdisk -l
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id
> System
> /dev/hda1             1       286   2162128+  83
> /dev/hda5           288       289     15088+  83
> Linux
> /dev/hda6           290       844   4195768+  83
> Linux
> /dev/hda7           845       983   1050808+  82
> Linux swap
> /dev/hda8           984      1816   6297448+  83
> Linux
> /dev/hda9          1817      1940    937408  83  Linux
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dave
>

I wondered that myself until I discovered the plus signs correspond to
partitions continuing from the next contiguous block.   I'll bet if you resize
/dev/hda9 and create /dev/hda10, /dev/hda9 would have a plus sign next to it's
block entry.

Scott

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