fdisk: class not found

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Saifi Khan wrote:
| Hi all:
Hi Saifi,

| Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the
| installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot.
|
| Should we write new partition table ? [n] y
| fdisk: Class not found
|
| When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table.
|
| What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ?

This comes from geom. See geom(8).

|
| There is no mention of the 'Class' in fdisk man page at
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8
|
| Can the experienced BSD guys explain ?
|
|
| thanks
| Saifi.


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