From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Jun 19 10:21:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9379537B436; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jj@localhost) by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g5JHKol13547; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:20:50 -0700 From: JJ Behrens To: Dave Uhring , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Hans Lambermont , .freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk seems broken for slices above cyl 1023 Message-ID: <20020619102050.B16914@alicia.nttmcl.com> References: <20020616232401.C91106@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> <20020616233233.GC56375@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from duhring@charter.net on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 07:06:13PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The fdisk utility from both NetBSD and OpenBSD have been unable to > recognize any drive larger than 1024 cylinders in my experience. I > would recommend you use them before importing any of their code. > > The only fdisk utility which I have found to work consistently well > with large drives is the one used in the Linux distros. Hmm, perhaps I am misunderstanding you, so I welcome your corrections. However, OpenBSD was successfully able to partition my large drive using LBA. Although the user interface did not work successfully, the partitioning was successful, and I was able to dual-boot FreeBSD and OpenBSD on my laptop. Nonetheless, I agree with you that Linux's fdisk is orders of magnitude nicer. Best Regards, -jj -- Users of C++ should consider hanging themselves rather than shooting their legs off--it's best not to use C++ simply as a better C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message