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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:27:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Disk slicing warning - Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole'
Message-ID:  <20020906212141.L1875-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>

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Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype    Fla=
gs
         0         63         62        -      6     unused        0
        63    8190945    8191007    ad1s1      2        fat        6
   8191008    8290800   16481807    ad1s2      2        fat        6
                 =DA=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4 Disk slicing warning: =
=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=C4=BF
                 =B3Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole'  =B3
=09=09=09Press F1 for info about fdisk 100% etc

In /stand/sysinstall and in the fdisk screen I got the above error.
Pressing F1 does not explain this error message, and there is no thread to
this from the archive:

=09Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:52:48 -0500
=09From:      "Dillion Klein" <dillionklein@hotpop.com>
=09To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
=09Subject:   Disk Slicing Warning: "Max one 'fat' allowed...."
=09Message-ID:  <00c701c1a492$f9080f40$0200a8c0@AFI>

=09Greetings,
=09Can someone please explain this warning I am getting, before I continue:
=09Disk Slicing Warning: Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole'
=09During the creation of slices in the FDISK Partition Editor.
=09Does this mean I cannot create more than on FAT partition, or?
=09Anything else you need? Thanks for your time,
=09DK

PS - sysinstall had a very appropriate caveat about how fdisk doesn't
actually format other Subtypes (such as FAT), it only reserves the space
for other tools to do so.  Is there an "mtools or mformat" type of tool to
format for msdos or FAT or FAT16 (same thing?) or FAT32?  Thanks peeps!

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Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555


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