I have a SATA hard drive with the following partition structure:

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa8a8a8a8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *   782236980  1953529577   585646299   a5  FreeBSD
/dev/sdb2       235352062   782227455   273437697    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5       235352064   245116927     4882432   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6       245118976   293945343    24413184   83  Linux
/dev/sdb7       293947392   782227455   244140032   83  Linux


Parted won't work with it because FreeBSD (sdb1) goes beyond the end of the 
disk. In any case, I'd just like to get rid of that partition, but I can't use 
parted to do it. Will fdisk itself do it with d and then 1? In the meantime, 
I'm going to try to back up the Linux partitions, which I want to keep: in any 
case, "destructive" partitioning will be necessary if the use of an application 
like fdisk fails. 



 
Robert "Tim" Kopp 
http://analytic.tripod.com/
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