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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: fdisk Date: 3 Feb 1994 08:07:51 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2iqbcn$k0k@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <0hI0M_u00WB7EC5GkR@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <0hI0M_u00WB7EC5GkR@andrew.cmu.edu>, Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> wrote: >are there any plans for FreeBSD to support a linux-style fdisk, which >*correctly* recognizes the disks' geometry? For *most* folks, FreeBSD *correctl* recognizes the disks' geometery. As has been pointed out by others, FreeBSD gives you the exact geometery of your disk which can be a bonus for file-system tweaking, but for existing with MS-DOS this can be bad. The fix for this is to use a DOS based fdisk program so that the partition will be correctly setup for DOS and FreeBSD. In the tools/dos_tools directory of the release on FreeBSD.cdrom.com is the pfdisk utility which works quite nicely. (I used it on every machine that had DOS and FreeBSD installed w/out problems). The only thing you have to remember is that the FreeBSD partition ID is 165 since it's not (yet?) in pfdisk. Using DOS tools ensures that FreeBSD and DOS will co-exist. (Since by it's very nature FreeBSD wants to swallow DOS whole. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.