[PLUG] Asterisk In cfdisk

[Rich Shepard]

   Running cfdisk on a new machine. There are 3 partitions: sda1 is 300G,
sda2 is 8G swap, and sda3 is 192G. There's an asterisk next to the size on
sda3; what does this mean?

   When the installation disk asks to format each partition and I select the
quick check with ext3 as the filesystem, sda1 completes very quickly but
sda3 takes a very long time. It's as though a quick format cannot be done on
this partition. Is this related to the asterisk after the size?

Rich