From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 21:47: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAF137B400 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 21:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g4A4oe103483 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 14:20:41 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200205100450.g4A4oe103483@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Can't newfs ad1s3 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:10:26 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, all! Strange phenomenon. I have a multi-boot system with two 8G drives. FBSD resides on ad0s3. Similarly, ad1s3 is unused, and I wsih to use it for /usr/local BUT fdisk will not allow me to partition that part of the disk for FBSD use. :-( Why? Even more important, how do I overcome the limitation? Output from "fdisk adn -f -t -v" below ad0: parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1027 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1027 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 22,(unknown) start 63, size 2056257 (1004 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 127/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 2056320, size 2088450 (1019 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 128/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 257/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 4144770, size 12353985 (6032 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 258/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: ad1: parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1027 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1027 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 3132612 (1529 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 194/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 3132675, size 3068415 (1498 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 195/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 385/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message