Dangerous file system / disk problem
Ben Paley
ben at spooty.net
Sun Jun 6 04:12:55 PDT 2004
Hello,
I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but of
course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began "preparing"
my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I swapped the drives
over, put W98 on the first one, they both boot fine and I didn't lose any
data.
BUT - Windows now sees my BSD disk (which has never happened before) and keeps
offering to format it for me. Partition Magic gives its filesystem type as
'BAD' rather than 'FreeBSD/i386', as it used to. Weirdly, Boot Magic (bundled
with Partition Magic) found both operating systems with no difficulty.
Since this isn't actually causing me a problem, I wouldn't normally care what
Windows thinks of my BSD disk, but I'm worried one of my kids will press
'Yes' to a format one day...
...any ideas?
su-2.05b# bsdlabel /dev/ad1s1
# /dev/ad1s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 2097152 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0
b: 2097152 2097152 swap
c: 156296322 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't
edit
d: 1048576 4194304 4.2BSD 0 0 0
e: 1048576 5242880 4.2BSD 0 0 0
f: 150004866 6291456 4.2BSD 0 0 0
su-2.05b#
Thanks,
Ben
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