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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev" <timon@stabilis.ru>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/42750: Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3
Message-ID:  <200209151750.g8FHo4jn036812@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR i386/42750; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev" <timon@stabilis.ru>
To: Danail Yordanov <d_j@vip.bg>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/42750: Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:41:43 +0400

 On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:01:22PM -0700, Danail Yordanov wrote:
 > When starting an installation on the machine containing FAT32(no OS there - only a partition for data) and XFS (with Linux) both are shown as one, called "Extended", type 15. I have reinstalled the Linux on the Ext3, but there was the same problem. Then I have decided to delete the Linux and installed FreeBSD. Then I have tried to mount the slice with FAT32 with the following command:
 > mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /windows
 > the error message was "msdos invalid argument"   
 > Then I have seen again that filesystem on the slice was called "Extended", not msdos or anything else. 
 > Fdisk don't recognize a FAT32 filesystem.
 > It seems as a lack of anything in the program fdisk.  
 Fdisk currently doesn't support diving into extended slices.
 You can use Linux Fdisk or take a look at
 http://memphis.mephi.ru/~timon/
  								Sinceherely yours, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev.

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