Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 11 May 2009 19:35:21 +0200
From:      Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fdisk: class not found
Message-ID:  <4A0861D9.4050308@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111115330.5038@localhost>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111115330.5038@localhost>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

Saifi Khan wrote:
| Hi all:
Hi Saifi,

| Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the
| installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot.
|
| Should we write new partition table ? [n] y
| fdisk: Class not found
|
| When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table.
|
| What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ?

This comes from geom. See geom(8).

|
| There is no mention of the 'Class' in fdisk man page at
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8
|
| Can the experienced BSD guys explain ?
|
|
| thanks
| Saifi.


- --
Pietro Cerutti
gahr@FreeBSD.org

PGP Public Key:
http://gahr.ch/pgp

+-----------------+
| How do  you get |
|that backwards b?|
+-----------------+

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD)

iEYEAREKAAYFAkoIYdgACgkQwMJqmJVx947R0QCcDrLUjkU+z/shQQtmPzGGVJFN
nF8AnA1m/emOWiq7v1jKypLyOZYWNJHj
=bIVF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
pi



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4A0861D9.4050308>