Re: [issue1159] fdisk: If no partition table, partition 4 is a whole-disk DragonFly partition? (plus bonus bug)

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe "Floid" Kanowitz schrieb:
> New submission from Joe "Floid" Kanowitz <jkanowitz@snet.net>:
>
> Hi all.  I decided to do a fresh install today, and discovered possible quirks
> with fdisk, and also head on ad devices, using the Nov 2 snapshot CD
> (2.1.0-DEVELOPMENT, Sun Nov 2 00:57 CET 2008).
>
> As part of this adventure, I installed a new-in-box PATA disk, booted from the
> install CD, and for curiosity ran fdisk against it.  fdisk properly complains
> that the partition table is invalid (the disk should be blank) but to my
> surprise then states that partition 4 is a type 165 Free/Net/DragonFly partition
> spanning the entire disk.

Hmm, yeah, for some reason, fdisk(8) will create partition 4 on a blank 
disk. I never really got the reason why it does that.

Sascha

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