What do the [+'s] mean in sda1 & sda7, sdb2 & sdb5 below?

[Steven Vollom]

John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Steven Vollom 
> <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net <mailto:stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     If you did not understand the below, what would you Google or what in
>     man:locate would direct me to an answer to my question?  Thanks!
>
>
> I Googled "fdisk -l" meaning of blocks
>
> found this site:
>
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/fdisk-l-output-154413/
They must have a page redirect, because I copied the address and pasted 
it on the list.
>
>
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I was working from a reply, as I recall.  I used the code they provided 
in a Shell, then I pasted the data to my reply.  I don't have a memory 
that can remember that info without seeing it.  My vague memory showed 
information on both my hard drives.  The second column from the right 
had a plus on certain entries, but not all of them.  The entry for my 
blocked partition sdb5 did not have the plus sign in that column.  As I 
recall a primary drive and 3 storage partitions each had a + after the 
numbers in that column.  I wanted to know what the + meant to see if it 
was relevant to the problem with sdb5.  That is the best I can do 
without seeing all of the previous post.  I can't believe I remembered 
that much.

Steven