Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 08:54:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does fdisk work? Message-ID: <199508300654.IAA05981@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199508300222.TAA05612@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 29, 95 07:21:50 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. as pointed out by someone else, fdisk should be run on /dev/rwd0, not on /dev/rwd0d as it is by default and used to work before. That's the trick. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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