Hi The following are the partitions in My second disk in 4.5 $ sudo fdisk wd1 Disk: wd1 geometry: 9729/255/63 [156301488 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- *0: 83 0 1 1 - 1823 254 63 [ 63: 29302497 ] Linux files* 1: 83 1824 0 1 - 3647 254 63 [ 29302560: 29302560 ] Linux files* 2: 83 3648 0 1 - 5471 254 63 [ 58605120: 29302560 ] Linux files* 3: 05 5472 0 1 - 9728 254 63 [ 87907680: 68388705 ] Extended DOS Offset: 87907680 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 0: 82 5472 1 1 - 5714 254 63 [ 87907743: 3903732 ] Linux swap 1: 05 5715 0 1 - 9728 254 63 [ 91811475: 64484910 ] Extended DOS 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused Offset: 91811475 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 0: 83 5715 1 1 - 9728 254 63 [ 91811538: 64484847 ] Linux files* 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused $
$ sudo disklabel wd1 # Extended partition 3: type 05 start 87907680 size 68388705 # Extended partition 1: type 05 start 3903795 size 64484910 disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid OpenBSD partition # /dev/rwd1c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: WDC WD800BB-00JH flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 9729 total sectors: 156301488 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] c: 156301488 0 unused i: 29302497 63 MSDOS j: 29302560 29302560 ext2fs k: 29302560 58605120 MSDOS l: 3903732 87907743 unknown m: 64484847 91811538 ext2fs $ Now when I try to change fstype of partition k using disklabel -e I get the following output # Extended partition 3: type 05 start 87907680 size 68388705 # Extended partition 1: type 05 start 3903795 size 64484910 disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid OpenBSD partition disklabel: line 24: too few fields re-edit the label? [y]: and the fstype is not changed to 4.2BSD :-( Could Somebody help me with this? Thanks --Siju