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[SOLVED] mbr/pbr question or problem
This may be primarily an OpenBSD question.
I had an extended fat32 partition I used for music files. I moved the files and formatted the partition for ext2fs to install linux. I then added some files to it, but then didn't like the way that distro ran, so I moved the files back to a different partition and formatted the partition to what it was before, fat32. I thought that would be easier and quicker than deleting everything. Now, when I boot back into OpenBSD, and mount the partition, it shows the files that were there when it was first fat 32 and used by OpenBSD! The partition size is the same and shows 2.5 gig used. Only difference is that one old directory now shows as a file, not a directory. I've basically formatted that partition twice since it was first used bye OpenBSD. How do I repair it so that OpenBSD shows a blank/clean partition? Thanks Last edited by unicyclist; 16th July 2009 at 01:21 PM. |
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Thanks jggimi for your help. I tried to get on early to edit my post, but you posted first. Sorry you had to spend time on this.
First, disklabel under OpenBSD, cfdisk under Slackware, and whatever program pclinuxos uses, all showed the same partition size. Those are the systems on this 120 gig hd. Only difference is that linux showed the partition as ext2fs (before formatting it back to fat32) and I had to mount the same partition under OpenBSD with mount -t msdos. I could play all the ogg files (about 2 gig of files) just fine under either linux system, but when booting into OpenBSD to play them, I was shown the old fat32 files, and yes I would run #disklabel -p m wd0 to check the size of the mounted partition All is well now since I did something last night that I've wanted to do for a while. I backed up my OpenBSD system, deleted that partition, deleted an old fat partition that was beside it (held os/2 files), and then installed current! Now, all 3 systems show the same information for the data partition. I know it all sounds very confusing, but all that really happened is the data partition went from fat32 to ext2fs and then back to fat32. Formatting (to me) is as fast and safer than "rm -Rf /" I don't want to get into the habit of typing something like that. All is well now. Sorry for the noise. |
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