Re: sysinstall partition editor displays funny subtypes

From: Simon L. Nielsen <simon_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:04:31 +0200
On 2004.08.16 13:54:37 +0200, Michiel Boland wrote:
> Hi. I notice that the FDISK Partition Editor in sysinstall displays rather 
> strange values for the partition types. For example, on a running 
> -CURRENT (cvsupped last friday):
> 
> Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype 
> Flags
> 
>          0         63         62        -     12     unused        0
>         63   78124032   78124094    ad0s1      4    unknown        0
>   78124095        905   78124999        -     12     unused        0
> 
> On my home machine a fresh install displayed the ad0s1 as "XENIX /usr" 
> (subtype 3). What? :)

Just a "Me too".  I saw the same on a test system, but I haven't
gotten around to looking more closely into what really happened.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team

Received on Mon Aug 16 2004 - 10:04:33 UTC

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