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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        hsw@psi.antar.bryansk.ru (Sergey W Homenkow)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newfs at msdos extended
Message-ID:  <199909280416.AAA93480@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990927194630.A1786@psi.antar.bryansk.ru> from Sergey W Homenkow at "Sep 27, 1999 07:46:30 pm"

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Sergey W Homenkow wrote,
> Hi, All!
> 
> I have 3 primary partition and 1 msdos extended.
> I want to use free space on msdos extended partition
> to mount as /usr.
> Can i do this ?
> If yes, what i will do (step-by-step) ?

FreeBSD can mount extended DOS partitions, but it cannot live inside
of one. You can mount an extended partition as /usr, but it would be
DOS. And that would break a lot of things that assume /usr is a
UNIX-type (multiuser) FS.

If you only have 4 partitions anyway, why not make them all 'real'
ones. 

And finally, remember that multiple FreeBSD partitions can (and
usually do) live within one DOS partition (or in FreeBSDese,
'slices'). 
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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