From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 29 19:22:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA03840 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:22:46 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA03832 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:22:28 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA05612; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:22:09 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508300222.TAA05612@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Does fdisk work? To: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508292150.QAA04918@luke.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Aug 29, 95 04:50:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 765 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD