From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 10:29:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schmoo.tclme.org (schmoo.tclme.org [208.24.53.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E186137B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 10:29:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 93542 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2001 18:28:53 -0000 Received: from dialup15.austintx.com (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.53.17) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2001 18:28:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3A99502E.6C60B8D0@tclme.org> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:34:22 -0600 From: Bob Greene Organization: TclMe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dru Cc: Daniel Mester , "'Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: 'fdisk' questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man chroot Dru wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Daniel Mester wrote: > > > 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 stands for? > > Thank you. > > "fdisk" reads the BIOS partition table which has four 16 byte entries. > Since you've only used one of these entries, the other three entries are > "unused". > > Dru > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Bob Greene rgreene@TclMe.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message