Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:48:37 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Daniel Mester <DanielM@EverAd.com> Cc: "'Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 'fdisk' questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102241147200.3920-100000@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <ED917D1F7E5D96439A2822CE966C2CB909084D@ilexc01.everad.com>
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Daniel Mester wrote: > Thanks. > > > (2) 'UNUSED' in this situation means that fdisk did not find > > any other freebsd partition, i.e., you probably have some other > > operating systems on those partitions, or else they really are > > unused. > > But i haven't got any other partition than FreeBSD on this box. It takes > whole disk. > freenix# fdisk -s /dev/ad4 > /dev/ad4: 4177 cyl 64 hd 63 sec > Part Start Size Type Flags > 1: 0 16841664 0xa5 0x80 > > So what the <UNUSED> stands for? > Thank you. "fdisk" reads the BIOS partition table which has four 16 byte entries. Since you've only used one of these entries, the other three entries are "unused". Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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