Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:36:23 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1049135784.46af66@mired.org> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name Message-ID: <16001.62247.178774.960037@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de>
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In <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de>, Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> typed: > >>I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an > >>extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation > >>of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. > > No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 > > and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on > > 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. > Yes, disklabel worked o.k., I talked about potential problems with > (DOS-term) partition tables, aka slice tables. > It's about two years ago, that I experimented with FBSD and > "extended/logical slices", but at least fdisk and /stand/sysinstall > didn't support those then. Did this change? At the moment I don't have > a spare system to experiment and check this myself. Ah, I understand you this time. The FreeBSD tools for manipulating slices don't grok extended slices. I forget what I used to do this - possibly Linux fdisk - but it wasn't the FreeBSD tools. The alternative on FreeBSD is to do the calculation by hand, as you said. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.
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