Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 02:43:34 +0400 (MSD) From: "Yan V. Batuto" <batuto_NOSPAM@mailru.com> To: "Willie Viljoen" <will@laserfence.net> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange filesystem problem revisited... (follow up) Message-ID: <AANez0zO002@YB3791.spb.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020609223108.U18802-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net>
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What tool did you use to create a fat32 partition? May be I am too late, but I'd like to say that m$dos fdisk is the best tool for making very amusing but perfectly useless muddle of partitions on the hard disk. It's from my personal sad experience. I installed FreeBSD on the new 40G HDD and left two 1G partitions in the beginning of disk for win and may-be-something-else. A month or two later I decided to install win98 on it. Dos didn't see unformatted partitions for some reason, so I ran dos fdisk to remove and create it again. Then windows was installed OK. Later, after restoring a bootmanager I booted a FreeBSD and got a panic on a such innocent action as 'ls'. I have never seen so many errors of all sorts during fsck... After an short investigation I found that fdisk made new win partitions passing about a 8G from the beginning of HDD so they was written over /usr... So I prefer to use for disk partitioning pqmagic, sometimes OS/2 fdisk but never -- win(dos) fdisk. Yan On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:32:02 +0200 (SAST), Willie Viljoen wrote: > It turns out Terry was right, the FAT32 partition had (unnoticed) > encroached upon the FreeBSD slice in such a way that the beginning of the > FAT32 primary partition, and the end of the FreeBSD slice were trying to > share the same piece of disk surface. > > Will > > -- > Willie Viljoen > Private IT Consultant > > 214 Paul Kruger Avenue > Universitas > Bloemfontein > 9321 > > South Africa > > +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 > +27 82 404 03 27 > > will@laserfence.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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