This was the procedure I follow in 4.3 sucessfully, the same I did in 4.8
and doesn't work:
-bash-3.2# fdisk -i sd1
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------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
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Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n]
MBR is unchanged
-bash-3.2# fdisk -i sd1
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------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
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Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
-bash-3.2# disklabel -E sd1
# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 32 size 2097120
Treating sectors 32-2097152 as the OpenBSD portion of the disk.
You can use the 'b' command to change this.
Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
a a
offset: [32]
size: [2097120]
FS type: [4.2BSD]
q
Write new label?: [y] y
-bash-3.2# newfs /dev/sd1a
newfs: : /dev/sd1a: not a character-special device
/dev/sd1a: 1024.0MB in 2097120 sectors of 512 bytes
6 cylinder groups of 202.47MB, 12958 blocks, 25984 inodes each
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 414688, 829344, 1244000, 1658656, 2073312,
no, not really different (though some things are more precise now)
So...the basics:
What did you do?
What did you expect to happen?
What did you see happen?
Nick.
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