Hello I exchange my harddisk in my notebook (old 53GB, new 76GB). The old one I divided in two partitions: 30 GB (Windows XP) / 23GB (FreeBSD 6.1). Now I moved over to the new one (43GB / 23GB) with Acronis TrueImage without any problems. Both os runs without any changes (I was very surpesed). Now I would mount the rest 10GB with a new slice to the existing one. Now I can create the slice with fdisk but not write the settings (typ w). I also see the following when I start fisk:
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?WARNING: A geometry of 165398/15/63 for ad0 is incorrect.
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?a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or you
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?are unsure as to whether or not it's correct, please consult
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?the Hardware Guide in the Documentation submenu or use the
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?(G)eometry command to change it now.
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?Remember: you need to enter whatever your BIOS thinks the
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?geometry is! For IDE, it's what you were told in the BIOS
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?setup. For SCSI, it's the translation mode your controller is
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?using. Do NOT use a ``physical geometry''.
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? [ OK ]
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My fdisk output is:
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******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=165398 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=165398 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
start 63, size 69219297 (33798 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 69219360, size 65303280 (31886 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
The screen from fdisk
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Disk name: ad0 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 9729 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156296385 sectors (76316MB)
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 12 unused 0
63 69219297 69219359 ad0s1 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7
69219360 65303280 134522639 ad0s2 8 freebsd 165
134522640 21778848 156301487 - 12 unused 0
It seems like the fdisk output differs from the fdisk console output, but I'm
not sure and very
confused. Any ideas are welcome.
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