Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:54:37 +0200 (MEST) From: Michiel Boland <michiel@boland.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall partition editor displays funny subtypes Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0408161347070.4631@brakkenstein.nijmegen.internl.net>
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Hi. I notice that the FDISK Partition Editor in sysinstall displays rather
strange values for the partition types. For example, on a running
-CURRENT (cvsupped last friday):
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype
Flags
0 63 62 - 12 unused 0
63 78124032 78124094 ad0s1 4 unknown 0
78124095 905 78124999 - 12 unused 0
On my home machine a fresh install displayed the ad0s1 as "XENIX /usr"
(subtype 3). What? :)
I notice that fdisk displays the partition type ok.
Here is the output from 'sysctl -b kern.geom.conftxt'
0 DISK ad0 40000000000 512 hd 16 sc 63
1 MBR ad0s1 39999504384 512 i 0 o 32256
2 BSD ad0s1f 38141648896 512 i 5 o 1857855488
2 BSD ad0s1e 268435456 512 i 4 o 1589420032
2 BSD ad0s1d 268435456 512 i 3 o 1320984576
2 BSD ad0s1c 39999504384 512 i 2 o 0
2 BSD ad0s1b 1052549120 512 i 1 o 268435456
2 BSD ad0s1a 268435456 512 i 0 o 0
Shouldn't there be a 'ty' entry for the MBR so that libdisk can populate
the subtype member properly?
Cheers
Michiel
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