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Date:      Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:46:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Aggelos Oikonomopoulos <lydwigvernon@yahoo.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/37063: [PATCH] kernel does not support extended linux partitions
Message-ID:  <200204141646.g3EGkr629165@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         37063
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] kernel does not support extended linux partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 14 09:50:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Aggelos Oikonomopoulos
>Release:        FreeBSD -stable
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD erwin.gr 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Mar  7 17:33:51 EET 2002 root@erwin.gr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
>Description:
The kernel does not handle partitions of type 0x85 (extended linux).
An extended linux partition is the same as an extended DOS partition, except for the entry in the partition table.
Looking at the code, -current does not provide this functionality either.
>How-To-Repeat:
Create an extended partition of type 0x85 and at least one logical partition in it. Try to access the device corresponding to such a logical partition.
>Fix:
A three-liner to add the functionality can be found at
http://www.cc.ece.ntua.gr/~aoiko/lin-extp.patch
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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