partitioning question

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:35:55PM -0700, Ken Moffat took 26 lines to write:
> I recently added an 80gig western digital oem to one machine as a slave, 
> and used BootIt-NG to partition it into 10 gig reiserfs partitions, with 
> hdb4 as extended and several logical partitions, hdb5-9. However, there 
> are .03meg spaces between each partition labeled /dev/hdb-1. Some are 
> labeled hidden, some not.

Odd. I have a WD 120GB drive (/dev/hdb) formatted thusly:

Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1         244     1959898+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2             245         732     3919860   83  Linux
/dev/hdb4             733       14593   111338482+   5  Extended
/dev/hdb5             733       14593   111338451   83  Linux

Notice that there are 31 unused blocks on the extended partition.
The logical partition (/dev/hdb5) uses the entire extended partition.
fdisk's v(erify) command tells me there are 5227 unallocated sectors,
which means I have 2,676,224 bytes, or just a shade over 2 MiB not used.
In both of our cases, I'd just chalk it up to administrative overhead.
It does sound strange, though. What if you partition with something other
than BootItNG (of which I've never heard)?

Kurt
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