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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:22:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does fdisk work?
Message-ID:  <199508300222.TAA05612@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508292150.QAA04918@luke.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Aug 29, 95 04:50:18 pm

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> 
> Does fdisk work for others?  I have not been able to get it to
> write anything on the disk.  I run it with the -i flag and answer
> all the questions in the affirmative, yet upon running it again
> (or disklabel) the disk still has no valid partion table (at least
> not what I specified).  This on both a 2.0.5R and a 950726-SNAP
> level system.
> 
> All I can figure is that either fdisk is terminally broken or I am
> missing something very fundamental about its use.  :-((

fdisk -u, the -u option is required if you wish to write to the
disk, -i write a master boot record, but no partition table.


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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