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Jeff Bearer wrote:

>----------------------------------------------------
>Command (m for help): p
>
>Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>
>8 partitions:
>#       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>  a:      128*      141*       12*    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16 
>  b:        1       128*      127*      swap                      
>  c:        1      1107*     1106*    unused        0     0       
>  e:      141*     1107*      966*    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16 
>------------------------------------------------------
>
>I thought it was showing up like this because if freeBSD or something.


>What does this mean? and better yet how do I get it to show the standard
>fdisk output?  

It means Linux fdisk is buggy, which its man page admits.  The BSD 
partitioning tools (I use OpenBSD) are smarter.  For my dual-boot 
laptop, I do most of the work witih OpenBSD disklabel and fdisk, and 
then install Linux into the space I've allocated for it.  Seems to 
work out better.  Interestingly, Disk Druid seems to be fine with the 
partition table after OpenBSD has touched it, but after the install, 
fdisk is helpless.  Check this out, running with Red Hat on this 
triple-OS boot laptop (note the warning):

d1-11:root 505 # fdisk /dev/hda
Warning: too many partitions (16, maximum is 8).

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1559 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

16 partitions:
#       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    10171     16781      6611     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16 
  b:    16782     17171       390       swap                      
  c:        1     23392     23392     unused        0     0       

Command (m for help): 


You might give sfdisk a try ... it's trickier, but powerful.  And 
while we're discussing it, how does one invoke Disk Druid after 
install?  I've never found it.  Never cared, until I discovered that 
it could handle things that fdisk can't.

- -d

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