Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!xanth!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: fdisk problem? Keywords: version 1.2, XT Message-ID: <1767@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 6 Dec 88 10:45:03 GMT References: <283@ge1cbx.UUCP> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 10 In article <283@ge1cbx.UUCP> usenet@ge1cbx.UUCP (Terry Lee) writes: > >the fdisk on minix 1.2 seems to be bugged in that the partition numbers it >reports is incorrect, and does not correspond to /dev/hd* or anything else. Partition ordering is in the eye of the beholder. MINIX, DOS, XENIX, PC-IX all have different conventions which is which. I am fairly confident that MINIX is internally consistent though. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)