On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:40:33PM -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote:
> On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a
> second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which
> were created by Windows 2000.
>
> Mount fails because they do not have OBSD disklabels... "Device not
> configured".
>
> # disklabel wd1
>
> ...warns that the partition table has no valid OBSD partitions, then shows
> /dev/rwd1c having c:, i: and j: partitions, c: being the entire drive, i:
> and j: being the two msdos partitions.
>
> I do have a lot of data on these two partitions, that I would like to have
> accessible to both operating systems.
>
> Is there any way I can safely disklabel the partitions, without losing the
> data, and still have them readable by both operating systems?
You cannot, and should not try to. The automatically constructed
disklabel is fine, mount /dev/wd1i or /dev/wd1j.
Joachim
--
TFMotD: perltie (1) - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
