Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:45:26 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD fdisk how to? Message-ID: <20080620164526.GC73666@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <406704.64754.qm@web57007.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20080620095651.F44351@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <406704.64754.qm@web57007.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:48:44AM -0700, Unga wrote: > --- On Fri, 6/20/08, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD fdisk how to? > > To: "Unga" <unga888@yahoo.com> > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 3:57 PM > > > g c30401 h255 s63 > > > p 1 165 63 488392002 > > > a 1 > > > > > > > > > I ran fdisk as follows: > > > fdisk -f configfile -itv /dev/ad2 > > > > > > > is this disk FreeBSD only? don't use fdisk at all > > Yep this hard disk is for FreeBSD only. Why I should not use fdisk? What > should I use to partition a disk? I'm running FreeBSD 7.0. He is making what was popularly called a 'dangerously dedicated' disk. There are no slices, just partitions carved out of the raw disk. It is readable only by FreeBSD. It works, but I prefer to have the flexibility of using fdisk and creating slices and then dividing them in to partitions. ////jerry > > Regards > Unga > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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