Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:46:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: nkj@namodn.com (Nick Jennings) Cc: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems mounting extended partitions and fdisk. Message-ID: <200210180146.g9I1kio28349@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021017163328.F10984@namodn.com> from "Nick Jennings" at Oct 17, 2002 04:33:28 PM
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> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:51:22PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > su-2.05b# fdisk /dev/ad1 > > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* > > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > > cylinders=2586 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) > > > > > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > > cylinders=2586 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 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 131,(Linux filesystem) > > > start 63, size 151137 (73 Meg), flag 80 (active) > > > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > > > end: cyl 9/ head 239/ sector 63 > > > The data for partition 2 is: > > > sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86) > > > start 151200, size 680400 (332 Meg), flag 0 > > > beg: cyl 10/ head 0/ sector 1; > > > end: cyl 54/ head 239/ sector 63 > > > The data for partition 3 is: > > > sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) > > > start 831600, size 483840 (236 Meg), flag 0 > > > beg: cyl 55/ head 0/ sector 1; > > > end: cyl 86/ head 239/ sector 63 > > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > sysid 5,(Extended DOS) > > > start 1315440, size 37784880 (18449 Meg), flag 0 > > > beg: cyl 87/ head 0/ sector 1; > > > end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 > > > su-2.05b# > > > > > > > It looks like fdisk is doing just what is is supposed to do. > > If you enter fdisk device it will print out a summary of > > the slice table. That is the way I read the man page. > > I read the manpage, and it does mention 'interactive' mode 3 times. > However, it seems as if nowhere does it say how to get into interactive, > mode. As I read it, it hinted at the fact that running 'fdisk <device>' > whith no params would put you in interactive mode. > > I probably am missing something, but can you please tell me how to > get into interactive mode? (I think I did this in the installation > process). You are right, it isn't very clear in the man pages, but the -i or -u flags will put you in to interactive mode. But, really, interactive mode is nearly unneeded nowdays with recent improvements to fdisk. ////jerry > > Thanks. > > -- Nick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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