From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 16 4:28:20 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 4564D37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B756C43E9E for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (adsl-64-175-104-161.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.175.104.161]) by pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9GBSGLE527068 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:28:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3DAD4CD8.3050106@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:26:16 -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 Bruce Evans wrote: > Don't use extended partitions directly. It is easy to > make a mess by clobbering the pointers to the logical drive > within them. I need to ask for clarification on this point. What do you mean by 'directly'? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message