From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 22:43:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0F237B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6628543E75 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g875hG8p026128; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:43:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:43:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Disk slicing warning - Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole' Message-ID: <20020907054316.GJ2767@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020906212141.L1875-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=cp437 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020906212141.L1875-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 06), Peter Leftwich said: > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 8190945 8191007 ad1s1 2 fat 6 > 8191008 8290800 16481807 ad1s2 2 fat 6 > ?ŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽ Disk slicing warning: ŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽŽ¨ > ?Max one 'fat' allowed as child of 'whole' ? > Press F1 for info about fdisk 100% etc > > In /stand/sysinstall and in the fdisk screen I got the above error. > Pressing F1 does not explain this error message, and there is no thread to > this from the archive: MS-DOS and Windows only recognise one FAT filesystem in the primary partitions. All other FAT filesystems must be in extended partitions. FreeBSD doesn't care. The error message is badly worded :) > PS - sysinstall had a very appropriate caveat about how fdisk doesn't > actually format other Subtypes (such as FAT), it only reserves the space > for other tools to do so. Is there an "mtools or mformat" type of tool to > format for msdos or FAT or FAT16 (same thing?) or FAT32? Thanks peeps! You can use newfs_msdos. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message