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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD - disklabeling sd1 and sd2
Date: 28 Jul 1994 16:56:32 -0700
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <319gjg$gkq@linda.teleport.com>
References: <317bt8$mst@linda.teleport.com> <vanepp.775406918@sfu.ca>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com
In article <vanepp.775406918@sfu.ca>,
Peter Van Epp <vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca> wrote:
>bmk@teleport.com (bmk) writes:
>
>...
>
>>What I'd also like to do is make my third drive visible to FreeBSD as
>>a single large DOS partition (I only need to do this so I can tar all
[snip]
>
> You need to provide a 1 cylinder "a" partition on the third disk to
>contain the BSD disk label otherwise (as you have discovered) it overwrites
>the partition table when you label the drive. Below is a pfdisk printout
>of the partition table on my first drive (FreeBSD is booted by bootmenu from
>the second IDE) and the disklabel on it:
>
[snip]
I figured this out this morning. What I did was create a dummy BSD
partition starting at sector 2 of cyl 0 head 0, and ending on the last
sector of the same cyl and head (In other words, AFTER the MBR, and
before the DOS partition). I was then able to disklabel the disk
safely.
One hint I can give before anyone else tries this. Print out a copy of
your partition table. I blew away mine more times than I care to
mention. With a printout, you can easily repair it, using FreeBSD
fdisk. DOS FDISK won't, of course.
--
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