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From: David Lim <lim@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [Q] FreeBSD 2.0R - fdisk is non-destructive?
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I just installed FreeBSD 2.0-R from the Walnut CD-ROM on a 1 Gbyte drive. I
created two slices one for DOS and one for FreeBSD. When I boot DOS, I run
fdisk, and it shows the slice sizes correctly. However, the DOS dir command
still reports free space relative to the entire disk. E.g. it says 100 Mbytes
used, 900 Mbytes free. Is this just a DOS bug of some sort? I'm worried that
DOS will overwrite sectors assigned to FreeBSD.