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Date:      Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:14:26 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Valerio daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fdisk problem
Message-ID:  <20050718141426.GA9075@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <27dbfc8c05071806476512f6a5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <27dbfc8c05071806476512f6a5@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2005-07-18 15:47, Valerio daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody
> we have a 2235Gb disk which we want to partition.
> If we use sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk and try to build a unique slice
> we get a message like
>
> 'Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully (100%)'
>
> but if we go back to fdisk it shows a freebsd slice of 187Gb
> plus an unused slice of 2048Gb.
> If we delete it and recreate a new slice, the problem persists.
> Is there any tutorial about using fdisk without using sysinstall?

If you're only going to use FreeBSD on the disk, you might find
this post useful:

http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/2004-10-26/daemonizing-a-new-disk




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