Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:51:21 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>, Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition with Partition Magic Message-ID: <19990210235121.D791@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990210152311.9110D-100000@bingsun1>; from zhihuizhang on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 04:15:20PM -0500 References: <36BB076C.A9E9CAA9@finsco.com> <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990210152311.9110D-100000@bingsun1>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 04:15:20PM -0500, zhihuizhang wrote:
>
>
> I insert CD-ROM and reboot from it. At the FDISK screen, I see four
> entries:
>
> offset size end name ptype desc subtype
> 0 63 62 - 6 unused
> 63 64197 64259 wd0s1 2 fat 4 <-- DOS
> 64260 9767520 9831779 wd0s2 4 extended 5 <-- extended primary
> 9831780 2363180 12594959 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 CA
>
> My question is: How come FreeBSD regard the first entry as unused? Why
> Partition Magic does not show this entry (It only shows the last three,
> wd0s1-wd0s3)? Why there are FOUR entries instead of THREE entries (each
> represent a primary partition)? Where does the extra entry (first one)
> come from?
>
Mine's the same, I think the first 63 sectors are the MBR and
partition table. FreeBSD fdisk shows the _whole_ disk, the DOS
version doesn't show the system areas>
HTH
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