PS: In Linux the result does look like this: $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep BSD /dev/sda1 63 121274684 60637311 a5 FreeBSD $ sudo parted -l | grep pri 1 32.3kB 62.1GB 62.1GB primary ext3 1 32.3kB 22.0GB 22.0GB primary ext4