Re: UFS Partitions

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:31:18 +0000 (GMT)

> detail as to why I am having this problem. My problem is thus. Whenever I
> boot into Linux it changes the partition ID of the BSD/386 partition to "b5"
> which disables the use of this partition under linux. I am currently in a
> one drive system right now, but this was also problematic when I had a two
> drive system configured like the howto says (Linux then FreeBSD).

The Linux boot up doesnt (or definitely shouldnt) touch your partition tables.

> [root@borg /root]# fdisk /dev/hda
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1025.

1025 is a most odd disk size..

> The long and short of it is that I would like to get my FreeBSD partitions
> mountable under linux so that I can actually read and write to them. And I
> am wondering why I am having the problems that I have.

Do you know for sure what or when the partition id changes ?

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