From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 5:45:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6476A37B5F7 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 05:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA62481; Tue, 30 May 2000 08:45:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:45:34 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Al Goldstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos partition Message-ID: <20000530084534.B62321@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000529201433.K58958@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from al@sense-gold-134.oz.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:28:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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