Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:01:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Danail Yordanov <d_j@vip.bg> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/42750: Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3 Message-ID: <200209131901.g8DJ1Mwl047452@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 42750
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: Fdisk makes no difference between FAT32, XFS or Ext3
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 13 12:10:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Danail Yordanov
>Release: 4.6 - STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
When starting an installation on the machine containing FAT32(no OS there - only a partition for data) and XFS (with Linux) both are shown as one, called "Extended", type 15. I have reinstalled the Linux on the Ext3, but there was the same problem. Then I have decided to delete the Linux and installed FreeBSD. Then I have tried to mount the slice with FAT32 with the following command:
mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /windows
the error message was "msdos invalid argument"
Then I have seen again that filesystem on the slice was called "Extended", not msdos or anything else.
Fdisk don't recognize a FAT32 filesystem.
It seems as a lack of anything in the program fdisk.
>How-To-Repeat:
Example: a 20 GB HDD is divided into 4 GB NTFS, 5 GB FAT32, 5 GB XFS(it could be other - Ext3), 6 GB unused. If you try the same, but without a n unused space, you would not know where is FAT32 and XFS. When you insert 1st CD from FreeBSD it will not make a difference between FAT32 and XFS and will display 10 GB Extended. If you try to mount these slices (actually displayed as one) they can't be mounted.
>Fix:
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