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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:02:50 +0200
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: fdisk'ing by hand - advice needed
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I'm trying to fdisk a wd disk which stems from pre-2.0 (pre slicing) times
in a running system. The disk presently looks like this:

******* Working on device /dev/wd2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1023 heads=160 sectors/track=63 (10080 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1023 heads=160 sectors/track=63 (10080 blks/cyl)

Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 0 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
    start 63, size 245889 (120 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
        end: cyl 243/ sector 63/ head 15
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 245952, size 811440 (396 Meg), flag 80
        beg: cyl 244/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 159

I want to delete all partitions and create one for FreeBSD only.
This is the geometry:

wd2: 516MB (1057392 sectors), 1049 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

Now what would be the correct fdisk settings to make this a 2.2 conformant
disk?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de