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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:12:25 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Virtual Bob <hey9811@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD STABLE discussion <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD - Linux curiosity
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106121808490.9146-100000@kristen.shadowdale.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010613002957.F62873@hades.hell.gr>

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> > Sorry about laughin. But I did this. Linux seems to WANT see
> > BSD partitions after doing so.

> Well, if you erased all the partitions from the disk using FreeBSD's
> fdisk, you can bet that the disk has no partitions.  Now, if Linux
> fdisk continues to believe for some obscure reason that the disk
> *does* have partitions, your problems are somewhere else.

It may well be that standard error handling routine for Linux is to
mark such error as "BSD" partition. If you wipe first few sectors of HD
clean and Linux still whines, then the problem is with Linux.

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