Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:16:11 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fdisk: class not found Message-ID: <3a142e750905120316g2d511e3dq558fe286b4d135e9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905121103030.7559@localhost> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905111115330.5038@localhost> <4A0861D9.4050308@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905121103030.7559@localhost>
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On 5/12/09, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Saifi Khan wrote: >> | Hi all: >> Hi Saifi, >> >> | Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the >> | installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot. >> | >> | Should we write new partition table ? [n] y >> | fdisk: Class not found >> | >> | When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table. >> | >> | What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ? >> >> This comes from geom. See geom(8). >> > > Hi Pietro: > > Does this imply, geom_mbr needs to be loaded, if one is using > the Fixit# (DVD/Live) console ? No, geom_part* are already replacing obsolete modules; geom_mbr is one of them targeted for removal. Until fdisk and bsdlabel got fixed you should use gpart(8) instead. I switched to gpart(8) months ago(did complete reinstallation) so that I could have more than 8 labels :) -- Paul
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