Has anyone noticed this? I've recently bought two 7200.12 1TB drives and they both had a single partition spanning the full size of the drive that was flagged as a FreeBSD partition (sysid 165).
The partition is invalid though. No disklabel and no valid file system.
Hrm, when I # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 count=20 && fdisk /dev/da1 it defaults to saying there's a sysid 165 partition. Is fdisk just being hopeful then?
I recall reading (once!) that fdisk reports a default (4?) 165's. So
if you have just one partition, three more would appear as
bsd... Probably just a default background upon which to
describe actual partition types.
If there is no MBR fdisk(8) reports one 165 partition.
This is for all disks.
Not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but it's been like this at leats since FreeBSD 4.
OpenBSD doesn't do this, it just prints an empty MBR.
If the table of partitions is mt, but the Signature is available
FreeBSD's fdisk will also show an mt table.
This you can achieve by deleting all partitions in sysinstall or sade and save.
If no signature is given, the hole table is non valid.
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