Fdisk /dev/hda on an Xserve G4

[Matt Krause]

Ahhh haaaa.  Thanks. :)  So it is normal for YD not to let you delete 
the Apple partition map partition at /dev/hda1 upon install?

Command (? for help): p

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
 #:                type name        length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple           63 @ 1
 2:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled      2048 @ 64        (  1.0M)
 3:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 214321408 @ 2112      (102.2G)
 4:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled  20480000 @ 214323520 (  9.8G)
 5:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled   4096000 @ 234803520 (  2.0G)
 6:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap       2048000 @ 238899520 (1000.0M)
 7:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled    307200 @ 240947520 (150.0M)

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=241254720 (115.0G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0


Jonathan Hartje wrote:

> you might try pdisk... :)
>
> Matt Krause wrote:
>
>> When I run fdisk /dev/hda on my Xserve G4, it doesn't report any 
>> partitions.  It reads
>>
>> Command (m for help): p
>>
>> Disk /dev/hda: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
>> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 239340 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>>
>> Command (m for help): q
>>
>> Is this normal because /dev/hda1 is some Mac parition that it wouln't 
>> let me delete upon install?
>>
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