Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:45:34 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Al Goldstein <al@sense-gold-134.oz.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <20000530084534.B62321@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005292155220.11897-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:28:00PM -0700 References: <20000529201433.K58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005292155220.11897-100000@sense-gold-134.oz.net>
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On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:28:00PM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:11:32PM -0700, Al Goldstein wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > > > > Have you tried fdisk(8) in FreeBSD to fix it? You can then use > > newfs_msdos(8) to put down the filesystem. > > > Thanks for your help, Crist. Very kind of you. > > I gave up on fdisk. After I had entered my changes with option "u" > for partition 1 it started on partition 2, eventhough it was only > given the device for partition 1. So I quit. An MSDOS partition table _always_ carries information about 4 paritions, no matter how many are actually being used. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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