Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 17:47:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Disk slicing warning - Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole' Message-ID: <20020907174604.V35072-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020907054316.GJ2767@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > > ?Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole' ? > > Press 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: > MS-DOS and Windows only recognise one FAT filesystem in the primary > partitions. All other FAT filesystems must be in extended partitions. > FreeBSD doesn't care. The error message is badly worded :) Well now it is still badly worded in my brain (still confused). > > 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! > You can use newfs_msdos. > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com Ya see I just new it had to do with "fs" somewhere in there but `man -k format` didn't return newfs_msdos as a choice! By the way, it really isn't clear from the manpage for newfs_msdos how to specify which HDD to act on. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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