From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 18:36:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0ACA37B892 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 18:36:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from eidiko4 (ppp3.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.18]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id DAA20661; Tue, 16 May 2000 03:35:42 +0200 (GMT) Message-ID: <003201bfbed7$16217240$12c536d4@eidiko4> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: , "Harry Putnam" References: <20000514225743.8623.qmail@web3104.mail.yahoo.com> <391F3ECE.76559CC0@3-cities.com> Subject: Re: how do I mount Extended DOS, LBA partition Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 04:35:56 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd grown used to the tidy informative output of linux fdisk, an > instant source of the device names required to mount any thing. > > Finally I realized I could start /stand/sysinstall/ open the slice > editor and find the names used for the various partitions, at least > some of them, these names are conspicuously lacking in fdisk output. > > Brings up a question if there is a different fdisk or some other util > that display device names in use. Oh well, if your machine is a dedicated one, just as mine is, you can always do: % disklabel /dev/wd0 and have the tidiest output I've ever seen. Of course, since i don't expect everyone to use their disks in "dedicated" mode, there are two steps in the process of finding the labels for a slice. Since there can be many many labels, and lots of slices, it's probably best to let the user decide which slice he wants to run disklabel on. Thus, fdisk does not try to provide you with *all* the possible information, but with the minimum amount of info that you need in order to decide which slice you'll run disklabel on, in order to see the rest of the info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message