On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Robert Kopp wrote:

> 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.

If push comes to shove and you remain unsure of your options, you 
might try using Clonezilla (or directly use one of its consitutent 
utilities like Partclone) to get an image of each of the partitions 
you'd like to save. Then you can nuke the existing partition table and 
restore your images.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
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