Re: fdisk: What do plus signs after "Blocks" mean?

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 15:24:36 EST


DervishD <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> It's a good idea to have a copy of the partition table around, if
> it is not simple (the one you had is NOT simple).

Be careful. What you'll get out of backing up the partition table is /only/
the primary partitions, the others are handled by a weird russian doll of
partitions-inside-partitions. AFAIR, the details were in the LILO docu.
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