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Subject: Doubtlessly Detecting Dangerously Dedicated Disks
In-Reply-To: <0aef01c052a2$34fc3f60$931576d8@inethouston.net> from "David W.
 Chapman Jr." at "Nov 19, 2000 09:30:19 pm"
To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:17:24 -0600 (CST)
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> I originally install freebsd 2.2.5 on my server and forgot if I used this
> option or not.  I'm currently at 4.1.1, how can I check to see if I'm
> dangerously dedicated or not?

Do:  "fdisk <diskname>" where <diskname> is something like ad0 for IDE and
da0 for SCSI.  It should say something "The data for partition X is:" where
X is 1-4.  If three of them say <UNUSED> and the remaining (usually
partition 1) says: "start 0" that means it is dangerously dedicated.  If
it says "start 63" or another non-zero number, it is a compatible slice.

--Rick C. Petty,  aka Snoopy                     rick@kiwi-computer.com


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