On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > What does the plus sign after the blocks value exactly mean in the fdisk > output? Some research reveals that it indicates that not all the blocks > are included in the fdisk value. But what does this exactly mean? IIRC, it means that the partition did not start/end on a cylinder boundary. I get these all the time when I manually configure partitions to get every last block used (not since "large" drives were about 500MB). As to loss, maybe yes. When you allocate using multipliers, (10GB, 100MB, etc.) the bytes per cylinder is used as a divisor. This *may* leave some part of a cylinder unused at the end. With todays drive sizes, even anal me doesn't worry about it anymore. > > Kai > HTH -- Bill