Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:34:22 -0600 From: Bob Greene <rgreene@tclme.org> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: Daniel Mester <DanielM@EverAd.com>, "'Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'fdisk' questions Message-ID: <3A99502E.6C60B8D0@tclme.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102241147200.3920-100000@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com>
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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 <UNUSED> 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
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