From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 03:01:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D689416A41A for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:01:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1FA13C455 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:01:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JUC006TAWEON4E0@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:01:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0931YXP092017; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:01:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:01:34 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <20080108223305.GA48272@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> To: Jerry McAllister Message-id: <4784390E.7000906@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 References: <4782EEF0.80809@gmail.com> <20080108155509.GD42838@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <4783F44F.5070303@gmail.com> <20080108223305.GA48272@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080104) Cc: FreeBSD Question Subject: Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:01:37 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:08:15PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jerry McAllister wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as >>>> partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable >>>> partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big >>>> enough)... after some research I found that vista absolutely >>>> insists that the ntfs partition be partition 1... how do I >>>> swap them and/or delete the ntfs one and renumber it so >>>> freebsd is in partion slot 2 (with nothing in 1 and then I >>>> can use fdisk to make a new slot 1) >>> Well, you can use fdisk from the fixit shell to make your slice >>> 2 (note the primary divisions are called 'slices' in FreeBSD) >>> in to a FreeBSD type and then create your FreeBSD partitions in >>> it and build FreeBSD filesystems there. >> I think I should of been a little more specific the physical >> layout is completely correct (i.e. the sizes, start/end tracks, >> etc.) the only problem is the logical numbering of the >> partitions/slices in the mbr idea of the table... namely I just >> need to relabel them not modify them in any way. > > I don't think you can make slice 2 become slice 1. The system > numbers them in order of appearance. This comes from BIOS standard > usage. 2 starts before 1 in my case?!??! % fdisk ******* Working on device /dev/ad8 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 62910540, size 913857525 (446219 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 63, size 62910477 (30718 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: 2 - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhDkOjRvRjGmHRgQRAr09AJ0TCHS+emo0rp0/UBNtHKE8CxxlBQCfTz3g AFWyXr9pArXzfBsGvfRFgUQ= =HZJJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----