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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:36:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No /boot/loader 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007210133230.44178-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200007201858.MAA92648@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007201948280.54469-100000@arnold.neland.dk> 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



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