Re: BSD partitioning for Linux

phil-news-nospam_at_ipal.net
Date: 04/02/05


Date: 2 Apr 2005 20:25:58 GMT

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:00:57 +0100 Conny <NOSPAMuncurbed@swipnet.se> wrote:

| <phil-news-nospam@ipal.net> skrev i meddelandet
| news:d0rd380109@news2.newsguy.com...
|> I'm looking for a Linux tool that can set up BSD style partition table
|> under Linux. It would be for making BSD partitions suitable for use
|> with FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris. But the idea is to do it
|> while running under Linux (and subsequently populate the partitions
|> under Linux, as well, given a supply of files or a block image to use).
|>
|
| fdisk can do it, allready in every Linux distro, run fdisk and type 'b'

That edits a BSD disk label. It says there isn't one. It doesn't help.

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