Fdisk screwup

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat May 9 13:35:33 UTC 2009


Jim wrote:
> FC10
> 
> I was  trying to setup a usb stick to fat16 FS , using Fdisk, I deleted
> the partition and was going to make a new one, did a 'w' to disk.
> But when I open fdisk /dev/sdc and do a 'l' , it lists only SunOS type
> partitions, how do I get back to where it lists the 'fat16' partition
> type ?
> 
> I have used fdisk many times but have never got it to display SunOS
> partition types.
> 
It almost sounds like you used to s option to create a new empty Sun
disklabel. You could try using the o option to create a new empty
DOS partition table and see if that helps.

Mikkel
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