Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:08:17 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name Message-ID: <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org>
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Hi Mike, >>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. Ciao Siegbert
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