Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:57:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ecclesiastes <ecclesiastes@planetfortress.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I've got a question (Duh) :) Message-ID: <19980903155726.Z606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001301bdd754$d9ad9b60$c48011d0@sean-myers>; from Ecclesiastes on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 12:06:24PM -0400 References: <001301bdd754$d9ad9b60$c48011d0@sean-myers>
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On Thursday, 3 September 1998 at 12:06:24 -0400, Ecclesiastes wrote: > Well, I've got a nice 5.7 or so Gig hard drive, and it's divided cleanly > into 3 partitions... > First is my Boot Drive, Second is my Stuff drive, and the third, that would > be my E: if I ever decided to load a file system on it. I have FreeBSD > Installation Software sitting right now on top of my computer case. The > operating system itself would be installed if I could figure out why the > Third Partition, or "slice" as the installation program puts it, weighs in > at only 17 Megabytes, while it should be about 1828 Mbytes. In Dos and > Windows, all three partitions register as being the same size, but with or > without a file system, FreeBSD seems to think my E: is 17 megs. > > Could someone please explain this slice thing to me, because if they aren't > basically a DOS partition, then I'm confused. And is there any type of > Format command native to FreeBSD? It's probably there, I just haven't looked > for it yet. What does DOS fdisk say about the partitions? What does the disk label editor in sysinstall say? They should look pretty similar. [-- Attachment #2 --] [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 1.7K --] [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] What's this about? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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