Subject: Re: fdisk and Magicstor microdrive
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mattias_Sandstr=F6m?= <mattias@beauty.se>
From: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 03/10/2004 19:16:43
On 2004-03-10 mattias@beauty.se wrote:
> Bob Jones wrote:
> > Got it ended up using cfdisk on linux to blow the microdrive away and
> > sliced it in open bsd...
>
> i think what i did was to create the msdos partition on the second fdisk
> partition, and set the first as netbsd. this caused wince to correctly
> format the disk so that i could finally disklabel it properly. whenever
> i tried to just change the size of the msdos partition and have the
> netbsd one start at the end of it, when i booted into ce it still
> thought it had the entire disk and wanted to format it all.

  I've seen this too; CE must check the fs instead of the partition map
for the size if the fs appears to be valid.  If you zero a few bytes at
the beginning of the partition it will recognize the new size.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com