From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 15 6: 8: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E74237B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (pimout4-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9625043E9C for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (adsl-64-175-106-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.175.106.226]) by pimout4-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9FD83oi530116 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:08:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3DAC12B5.1080801@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 06:05:57 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021001 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3DAAB913.4010407@hotmail.com>, walt writes: > >>Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical >>partition for a BSD filesystem? > We already support that as far as I know, both with and without GEOM Yes! The reason I could never make it work is because of an 'error' in the man page for newfs: "Before running newfs the disk must be labeled using disklabel(8)" Well, disklabel won't work on an extended/logical partition so I never actually got as far as newfs until just now. Turns out that newfs works just great without a disklabel on a logical partition. I just moved the entire ports collection to my brand new 8Gb ufs partition and never went near growfs. I'm very happy! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message