Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:22:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: bob@luke.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does fdisk work? Message-ID: <199508300222.TAA05612@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199508292150.QAA04918@luke.pmr.com> from "Bob Willcox" at Aug 29, 95 04:50:18 pm
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> > Does fdisk work for others? I have not been able to get it to > write anything on the disk. I run it with the -i flag and answer > all the questions in the affirmative, yet upon running it again > (or disklabel) the disk still has no valid partion table (at least > not what I specified). This on both a 2.0.5R and a 950726-SNAP > level system. > > All I can figure is that either fdisk is terminally broken or I am > missing something very fundamental about its use. :-(( fdisk -u, the -u option is required if you wish to write to the disk, -i write a master boot record, but no partition table. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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