Hi, I have a 320G Buffalo Ministation external USB drive, which I wish to partition so that it contains 1 DOS and 1 native OpenBSD (FFS) partition. Using disklabel, I could created these: > p OpenBSD area: 0-625142448; size: 625142448; free: 0 # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] c: 625142448 0 unused h: 310557618 314584830 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 i: 314584830 0 MSDOS >
Now I format sd1h with newfs and things go fine. But when I format sd1i with newfs_msdos, I see the disklabel changed to something like this: OpenBSD_46$ sudo disklabel -E sd1 Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt) > p OpenBSD area: 0-625142448; size: 625142448; free: 0 # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] c: 625142448 0 unused i: 625142448 0 MSDOS > So the FFS partition is gone. I want the USB disk to be also used on Windows XP, so the MSDOS partition. I am not sure if this is possible, since disklabel is OpenBSD specific, and XP may not be able to see it anyways. I am missing something here for sure, but cannot figure out what. Would appreciate a pointer. Thanks. Also, is there another way to achieve this? (I was unable to create a MSDOS partition from Windows XP, as it only allows NTFS now). -Amarendra
