changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:01:34PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

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> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:08:15PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> >> Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:33:04PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as
> >>>> partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable
> >>>> partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big
> >>>> enough)... after some research I found that vista absolutely
> >>>> insists that the ntfs partition be partition 1... how do I
> >>>> swap them and/or delete the ntfs one and renumber it so
> >>>> freebsd is in partion slot 2 (with nothing in 1 and then I
> >>>> can use fdisk to make a new slot 1)
> >>> Well, you can use fdisk from the fixit shell to make your slice
> >>> 2 (note the primary divisions are called 'slices' in FreeBSD)
> >>> in to a FreeBSD type and then create your FreeBSD partitions in
> >>> it and build FreeBSD filesystems there.
> >> I think I should of been a little more specific the physical
> >> layout is completely correct (i.e. the sizes, start/end tracks,
> >> etc.) the only problem is the logical numbering of the
> >> partitions/slices in the mbr idea of the table... namely I just
> >> need to relabel them not modify them in any way.
> >
> > I don't think you can make slice 2 become slice 1.  The system
> > numbers them in order of appearance.  This comes from BIOS standard
> > usage.
> 2 starts before 1 in my case?!??!
> 
> % fdisk
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad8 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> 
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 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 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 62910540, size 913857525 (446219 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>     beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
>     end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> The data for partition 2 is:
> sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
>     start 63, size 62910477 (30718 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>     beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
>     end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
> 
> 2

Interesting.   I have never seen that before.

////jerry

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