Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:09:29 +0530 From: Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using extended partitions.. ? Message-ID: <463aea570607282139w28e40c15lf26bf38caa2c7ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <62E48151-B723-42D4-85CD-3FEB7FD979F6@mac.com> References: <463aea570607281355n523f4bfrbda671635aea107b@mail.gmail.com> <62E48151-B723-42D4-85CD-3FEB7FD979F6@mac.com>
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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 <cswiger@mac.com> 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.. !!]
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