-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPFma1r9BpdPKTBGtEQJYqACglqvpytMaG4OvPPjmHcKCLYnENEAAnj5u UJzABi0RCCKBbPc8G/u0jkeD =FJTG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list