From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 07:18:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00270 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from finsco.com (ns1.finsco.com [216.0.231.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA00264 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@finsco.com) Received: from finsco.com by finsco.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA05257; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:14:04 -0600 Message-ID: <36C2F42D.7E497F9F@finsco.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:15:57 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zhihuizhang CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition with Partition Magic References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks like the first track to me. Mine is like that also. I guess fdisk just shows it as a "partition". zhihuizhang wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > I am using FreeBSD 2.2.8. I bought 4 CDs from Walnut Creek. Having read > some of the followups, I am still confused with the unexplained first > partition which is 62 sectors (its Ptype is 6 and labeled as "unused"). > Even if I declare ALL disk space to FreeBSD on a machine, that partition > still occurs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message