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Date:      16 Aug 1998 12:04:43 -0000
From:      jos.backus@nl.origin-it.com
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   i386/7629: fdisk does not recognize BSD/OS partitions
Message-ID:  <19980816120443.1722.qmail@jos.mp-c.com>

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>Number:         7629
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       fdisk does not recognize BSD/OS partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 16 06:10:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jos Backus
>Organization:
Origin B.V.
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

	-current and -stable (but didn't check -stable)

>Description:

	fdisk doesn't identify a BSD/OS [23].x partition, it labels it
        ``unknown'' instead.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Run fdisk on a disk containing BSD/OS partitions.

>Fix:
	
	Add BSD/OS partition type to /usr/src/sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.c:

--- fdisk.c.orig        Mon Jul  6 08:44:36 1998
+++ fdisk.c     Sat Aug 15 20:57:52 1998
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@
        ,{0x83, "Linux filesystem"}
        ,{0x93, "Amoeba filesystem"}
        ,{0x94, "Amoeba bad block table"}
+       ,{0x9F, "BSD/OS"}
        ,{0xA5, "FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD"}
        ,{0xA6, "OpenBSD"}
        ,{0xA7, "NEXTSTEP"}

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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