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Subject: Re: fdisk headache
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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)