Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:34:36 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org> To: Jason Diesel <jason@dataware.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding disks... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960320193158.1275F-100000@moonpie.w8hd.org> In-Reply-To: <199603201555.QAA00246@othello.dataware.de>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Jason Diesel wrote: > This is what I have been trying to do, the only problem is, fdisk > gets the correct parameters for the disk, disklabel does not > have a clue what I am trying to do, and newfs then writes a fs > of about a third of my disk. I think you can solve all of these problems if you use fdisk to first create a small dos partition of say, a few megs, then use the tools as you have to make the next partition for FreeBSD. I think this will convey the correct disk geometry information and things will work as expected. regards kim -- kimc@w8hd.org
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