On 1/9/09, Josh Grosse <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:59:11PM +0000, the.phule wrote: >> Evening All, >> >> I just purchased a new external USB harddrive (maxtor 500Gb Basics) >> and plugging in into my 4.4 box I have got stuck it isnt formatted to >> a FAT32 format it's ntfs....[snip] >> >> >> ...Can I just use disclabel to delete the i entry and add an "MSDOS" >> format type? > > There are *two* partition tables to consider. The MBR partition table, > which you can display with the fdisk(8) program, and the OpenBSD partition > table, known as the disklabel. > > OpenBSD pays attention to both. Windows systems will only look at the > MBR partition table. If you intend to use this disk with foreign systems > such as Windows, as well as OpenBSD, you should consider both. Note: > when OpenBSD does not find a disklabel, it will use the MBR table to > craft a virtual disklabel, and will lay out foreign MBR partitions in that > virtual disklabel beginning with disklabel partition "i". > > In order to create a valid FAT32 partition that a foreign system can see, > you will have to edit the MBR partition table with fdisk, and format as > FAT32 with newfs_msdos(8). It would probably be easier, if you are > unfamiliar with these tasks, to plug the USB drive into a Windows machine > and "reformat" it there as FAT32, which will take care of both the MBR > partition and the filesystem itself.
Thanks i'll have a look at fdisk as well then cheers for the heads up. k _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
