On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:43 PM Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> The usual process is to use prep first to create a windows etc
> compatible partition table with one big partition called plan9.
> then subdivide that.
>
> see the recipie near the end of the format(1) manpage.
>
> why part does different things in automatic mode I don't know.

Hi,

Yes, when I used disk/fdisk I set a single p1 partition with
the label plan9.  Then I was running disk/prep against that
/dev/sdE1/plan9 partition.

I couldn't think of any reason I needed a 9fat partition on
a disk I didn't plan to use as a boot disk.

Jim