Sebastian Rother wrote: > > On Sun, 6 May 2007 11:12:54 -0700 > "Ted Unangst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/6/07, Sebastian Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > I`ve a problem with one HDD wich has 3 empty Partitions at the > > > beginning. I wanted to remove those partitions but OpenBSDs fdisk > > > doesn`t know about a "delete" Command and disklabel so far shows > > > just the OpenBSD (4th) partition. > > > > reinit? make them size 0? > > Thanks! > During reading the manpage I did not understand it that way. > So i didn`t tried "reinit" so far. > > I have currently the Problem that fdisks shows me 3 garbage > partitions but disklabel does not. > The garbage Partitions have a size of 0 and also every other > Value is 0.... > > So making them size 0 wont help, or? > Or do I may missundertand the manual for fdisk here? > > Kind regards, > Sebastian >
The DOS (Microsoft Windows) partition table has 4 entries. Regardless of how many are or are not used for anything. The unused partitions are pretty much zeroed. DOS likes to use partition 1 (counting 1,2,3,4) OpenBSD likes to use partition 3 (counting 0,1,2,3) Other than BIOS bootstrap, OpenBSD pretty much ignores the DOS partition table and instead uses the OpenBSD disklabel to specify what is stored where. I think if you are brave and daring (or ???) you can survive very nicely when there is NO correspondence between the two.
