From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 22:06:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11353 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.148]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11341 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00365; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" cc: FreeBSD questions , Jeff at work Subject: Re: Installation probs and fdisk/pfdisk In-Reply-To: <1372755071-85075705@hfdmail1.imagine.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > I was recently helping a friend of mine install FreeBSD on his system > and we ran into a problem partitioning with fdisk. We partitioned the > hard drive too small at first and decided that we wanted a bigger > partition. Unfortunately, fdisk would no longer recognize the full > capacity of the hard drive for partitioning and so we weren't able to > restore the minimum size of the first partition to its original size. Odd. Did you delete the FreeBSD slice first? > We were brain damaged and forgot to make a backup of the partition table > before we hit it with fdisk. Doh! > We have an EIDE hard drive and are hoping that we can use the DOS > utility pfdisk from the Walnut Creek CDROM or the FreeBSD fdisk > (preferably pfdisk) to force the partition table back into shape. Nope. Was the partition table completely damaged? > We don't know the native geometry of the hard drive, since the geometry > that the BIOS reports and the geometry that FreeBSD's bootstrap reports > can sometimes be confusingly different. To get to the point, which > geometry should we feed to pfdisk or FreeBSD's fdisk to fix things up? I guess I need to know what is broke. What about DOS's fdisk? Use that if at all possible. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major