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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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