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Thanks.

> (2) 'UNUSED' in this situation means that fdisk did not find
> any other freebsd partition, i.e., you probably have some other
> operating systems on those partitions, or else they really are
> unused.

But i haven't got any other partition than FreeBSD on this box. It takes
whole disk.
freenix# fdisk -s /dev/ad4
/dev/ad4: 4177 cyl 64 hd 63 sec
Part        Start        Size Type Flags
   1:           0    16841664 0xa5 0x80

So what the <UNUSED> stands for?
Thank you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary L. Dolan [mailto:fred1@inebraska.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 3:24 PM
> To: Daniel Mester
> Subject: 'fdisk' questions
>=20
>=20
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:45:03PM +0200, Daniel Mester wrote:
> >=20
> > I found in 'man fdisk' that actually fdisk is looking in=20
> /dev for disks
> > `wd0', `da0', and `od0'  in that order, until one is being found
> > responding.
> > Why it follows only those 3 devices?
> >=20
> > >From 'dmesg' i found that my hd-device is called "ad4:=20
> 8223MB <ST38410A>
> > [16708/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA66" - why it has 4-th ID -=20
> why it is
> > not ad0 or something?
> >=20
> > Later i run 'fdisk /dev/ad4' - and got this outprint:
>               * * * *
> > The data for partition 2 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> > The data for partition 3 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> > The data for partition 4 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> >=20
> > What mean <UNUSED> tags here?
>=20
> (1) Fdisk only looks in 'wd0', etc., because that is its default
> behavior, i.e., default behavior is what a program does if you do
> not give it additional parameters. When you gave it the additional
> parameter of ad4, it read that disk partition.
> (2) 'UNUSED' in this situation means that fdisk did not find
> any other freebsd partition, i.e., you probably have some other
> operating systems on those partitions, or else they really are
> unused.
>=20
> --=20
> Gary Dolan
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, Kernel 2.4.1=20
> FreeBSD 4.2
>=20

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