Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:22:31 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk headache Message-ID: <32EAA3C7.41C67EA6@whistle.com> References: <9701252225.AA13971@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> <Mutt.19970126003302.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > As Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > The simplest solution (assuming you only want FreeBSD there) is: > > . wipe out your junked fdisk table: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd4 count=10 > . give the entire disk to FreeBSD: disklabel -Brw sd4 auto > . edit the partitions as you need: disklabel -e sd4 I think it is bad form to do this.. I always put an fdisk partition table on the disk.. of course that depends on whether it's a bootable disk or not.. (or ever might need to be)
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