From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 20 18:11:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DEC37B81E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id DAA25002; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 03:11:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA45522; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:36:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:36:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: Warner Losh Cc: Doug White , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader In-Reply-To: <200007201858.MAA92648@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Leif Neland writes: > : Just to be on the safe side, is there a simple way to see if a disk is > : dedicated? > > fdisk -s ad0 > > If there's a slice table, then it will give you a summary report of > the slices. If not it will report an error (and maybe give you a > faked up listing). I have windows partitions on my disks here, so they can't be dedicated. fdisk -s ad[0,1,2] all reports invalid fdisk partition found. Does that mean that a dedicated disk has a slice table, a normal doesn't? Confused... Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message