fdisk problem

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-07-18 15:47, Valerio daelli <valerio.daelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody
> we have a 2235Gb disk which we want to partition.
> If we use sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk and try to build a unique slice
> we get a message like
>
> 'Wrote FDISK partition information out successfully (100%)'
>
> but if we go back to fdisk it shows a freebsd slice of 187Gb
> plus an unused slice of 2048Gb.
> If we delete it and recreate a new slice, the problem persists.
> Is there any tutorial about using fdisk without using sysinstall?

If you're only going to use FreeBSD on the disk, you might find
this post useful:

http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/2004-10-26/daemonizing-a-new-disk