From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 04:39:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F9D16A4DF for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:39:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobbledegeek@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7E743D5A for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:39:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gobbledegeek@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so35953uge for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:39:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sLGVJf9GxhJIHinIQm1vDlTEJQvy96Zt3cH6pUZscLmM3BqWxa2meFKaLYAJaUg+WHoOeXu3w/A0VKmvfFQXMUMMc4qsqJKc2/GsqkGBICMfK79LeHs8QE970GnC/ZwWGrAaa7MrYYW1zWVD/Py5kkhykV+J7YZS1tkc0pusI+k= Received: by 10.78.156.6 with SMTP id d6mr22788hue; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.151.1 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463aea570607282139w28e40c15lf26bf38caa2c7ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:09:29 +0530 From: Gobbledegeek To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <62E48151-B723-42D4-85CD-3FEB7FD979F6@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <463aea570607281355n523f4bfrbda671635aea107b@mail.gmail.com> <62E48151-B723-42D4-85CD-3FEB7FD979F6@mac.com> Subject: Re: Using extended partitions.. ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:39:30 -0000 Thanks all. I have XP and linux share the xtended partition, and now I want to say bye bye linux (I need XP for worldwind s/w) . Ido not see the extended logical drives containing ext3 from sysinstall that is the problem. The cmdline freebsd fdisk feels like a throw back tp the pdp-11 days :) So I'm going to try and mount them from bsd below my home folder, without deleting them first... until I work out exactly how to use the fbsd fdiks cmdline without damaging anything. Thanks once again! Rgrds On 7/29/06, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Gobbledegeek wrote: > > I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not > > possible, but never asked anyone so.... > > > > Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a > > single disk? > > Sure. You'd be mounting filesystems from /dev/ad0s2 rather than > ad0s1, for example, depending on your hard drive position in the ATA > chain and which FDISK partitions you've used. > > > For example, I already got a fbsd slice with > > partitions in it, now I want to add another and use that space, > > after deleting a windoze partition. > > Should be no problem. > > > What about using an extended logical partition as a freebsd > > slice? > > IMHO, logical partitions are pure evil which was invented to work > around the 4-partition FDISK limit, and are nearly useless to > anything which creates its own slices or subpartitions within an > FDISK partition the way BSD or Linux can. > > YMMV, but I would convert the extended partition into a normal one > and use it directly within FreeBSD, as I do not believe you can boot > from extended partitions... > > -- > -Chuck > > -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!]