Carl Harris writes:
> Here I've added partition f with the offset and size obtained from the fdisk
> output.  But when I try to save the edited disklabel, I get
>   disklabel: warning, unused partition f: size 1007937 offset 63
> And if I then try to mount the disk,
>   # mount -r -t msdos /dev/wd0f /mnt
>   msdos: mount: Device not configured
> Anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?

Yep, change the '5 partitions' to '6 partitions' just before the list
of partitions.

Personally, I think that disklabel should give you a chance to reedit
instead of just warning on this one - it asks you to re-edit on other
stuff which is just as (un-)important (depending on how you look at
it.)

PS: different topic. I'm going to hack fdisk so that it can take a
logical device (e.g, ``sd0''), and also so that it knows about the
structure of logical partitions inside extended partitions. More
later.


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Luke Mewburn <luke.mewburn@itg.telstra.com.au>

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