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From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fdisk
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:25:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E04D6A3.4060105@gmail.com> (raw)

In fdisk, printing a partition table gives the headers:

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

What's a block?  It does not seem to be defined anywhere.  Perhaps an 
update to the man page would be appropriate.  A line in the explanation 
above the partition listing would be even better.

On my system, a block appears to be 2-512 byte sectors, but is it always so?

   -- Bruce

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-24 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24 18:25 Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2011-06-27 14:21 ` fdisk Karel Zak
2011-06-27 19:27   ` fdisk Mike Frysinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-31  2:04 fdisk Bruce Dubbs
2015-08-31  6:56 ` fdisk Bernhard Voelker
2015-08-31 16:20   ` fdisk Bruce Dubbs
2015-09-02  1:29     ` fdisk Isaac Dunham
2015-08-31 10:06 ` fdisk Karel Zak
2015-09-02  2:07   ` fdisk Isaac Dunham
2015-09-02  8:01     ` fdisk Karel Zak

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