Hello, I have an OpenBSD 3.7 i386 installation on an external usb-enclosure. I have some space left, and I would like to create an msdos partition (to transfer files between windows and OpenBSD).
I have tried to create one using OpenBSD's fdisk; then I have formatted the new partition in windows xp. But now I don't see how to access the new partition from OpenBSD -- it does not appear in disklabel, so I don't know how to mount it. Here is some relevant data: mhv2040at# dmesg | grep sd0 sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MHV2040AT, 0000> SCSI0 0/direct fixed sd0: 38154MB, 38154 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 78140161 sec total dkcsum: sd0 matched BIOS disk 80 root on sd0a mhv2040at# fdisk sd0 Disk: sd0 geometry: 4864/255/63 [78140160 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *0: A6 0 1 1 - 4177 254 63 [ 63: 67119507 ] OpenBSD 1: 0C 4178 0 1 - 4308 254 63 [ 67119570: 2104515 ] Win95 FAT32L 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused mhv2040at# disklabel sd0 # using MBR partition 0: type A6 off 63 (0x3f) size 67119507 (0x4002993) # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: MHV2040AT flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 38154 total sectors: 78140161 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 524225 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 255 # Cyl 0*- 255 b: 2097152 524288 swap # Cyl 256 - 1279 c: 78140161 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - 38154* d: 524288 2621440 4.2BSD 2048 16384 256 # Cyl 1280 - 1535 e: 2097152 3145728 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 1536 - 2559 f: 4194304 5242880 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 2560 - 4607 g: 524288 9437184 4.2BSD 2048 16384 256 # Cyl 4608 - 4863 h: 4194304 9961472 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 4864 - 6911 i: 2097152 14155776 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 6912 - 7935 j: 2097152 16252928 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 7936 - 8959 k: 2097152 18350080 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 8960 - 9983 l: 4194304 20447232 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 9984 - 12031 m: 8388608 24641536 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 12032 - 16127 n: 34089426 33030144 4.2BSD 2048 16384 323 # Cyl 16128 - 32773* mhv2040at# mount /dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local) /dev/sd0l on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0m on /mozilla type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0n on /share type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0d on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0f on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0g on /usr/X11R6 type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0h on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev) /dev/sd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0j on /var/mail type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0k on /var/mysql type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) /dev/sd0i on /var/www type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) mhv2040at# ll /dev/sd0* brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0a brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 1 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0b brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 2 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0c brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 3 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0d brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 4 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 5 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0f brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 6 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0g brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 7 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0h brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 8 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0i brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 9 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0j brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 10 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0k brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 11 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0l brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 12 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0m brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 13 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0n brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 14 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0o brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 15 Sep 4 22:33 /dev/sd0p mhv2040at# I think sd0o and sd0p are the leftovers from the installation procedure (I might have created sd0o and sd0p, but deleted it during the installation). Cheers, Constantine.