From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 16:36:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B99F16A5AA for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:36:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobbledegeek@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C0B43D4C for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:36:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gobbledegeek@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so172321uge for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:36:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m3sJb1O8CKZt4pKQVRVK2pTn3u9sChQuYqikcPTHNXHfWNh8IeDShXuTUOEIIevAMoZ2qVgfeNkl393haq2flWdXiV3AuqDEB5C6SL2knYIoz9kBdTmAiLv8WKt0MDITwPrB3gwz0sEgU9gaizGSGhWUj/c0Rk1twRDz06i9rCM= Received: by 10.78.131.13 with SMTP id e13mr84563hud; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.151.1 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463aea570607290936p7a2cbfp1584f73063d4b97a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:06:32 +0530 From: Gobbledegeek To: "Ian Smith" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060729095840.50A4A16A576@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using extended partitions.. ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:36:38 -0000 Partition magic looks like the least painful option. Thanks for the tip. I'm just gonna try newfs on the logical partitions once and see :) after I change t ptype to ufs from linux fdisk.... just for kicks.. Rgrds On 7/29/06, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > > Message: 15 > > > Thanks all. I have XP and linux share the xtended partition, and > > now I want to say bye bye linux (I need XP for worldwind s/w) . > > That's different then. If you want to keep XP (and keep it within that > extended partition) then you can't delete the extended partition. You > could use Partition Magic (ono) to delete the linux logical drive, then > shrink the extended partition to make space for another slice (maximum > of four), which is what you'll need for another UFS slice. > > > Ido not see the extended logical drives containing ext3 from > > sysinstall that is the problem. > > You won't - fdisk sees the four slices only, the 'extended partition' > being one of those entire, with it's specific type. > > What does just 'fdisk' say? (you can do this anytime, it just lists) > > The view from linux &| XP fdisk may be useful also. > > > The cmdline freebsd fdisk feels like a throw back tp the pdp-11 days :) > > Definitely to be used with due care. I generally prefer trusting > sysinstall to be good with the maths - but keep a beady eye on it too. > > > So I'm going to try and mount them from bsd below my home > > folder, without deleting them first... until I work out exactly how > > to use the fbsd fdiks cmdline without damaging anything. > > You can mount them, readonly anyway, knowing that the first 'logical > drive' within the 'extended partition' appears as ad0s5, the second as > ad0s6 etc, assuming ad0 of course. > > Cheers, Ian > > -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!]