Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 07:46:47 +0100 From: Mark Hannon <mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com> To: "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use extended partition for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <36E220D7.846A2C9A@stockholm.mail.telia.com> References: <36E14B67.E5427D07@stockholm.mail.telia.com> <36E19082.B11A7AC5@borg.com>
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Hi,
But my problem is that it is wd0s6, ie a 'logical' drive within the DOS
extended partition that I have available and logical drives do not appear
in fdisk! When I fire up /stand/sysinstall I see this:
Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 523 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8401995 sectors
Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 2056257 2056319 wd0s1 2 fat 11
2056320 5510295 7566614 wd0s2 4 extended 5
7566615 835380 8401994 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C
8401995 2835 8404829 - 6 unused 0
It is not possible to look inside the extended partition!
Regards/Mark
"Mark S. Reichman" wrote:
> I just did this... About 2 weeks ago actually.
> I used /stand/sysinstall for the whole thing.
>
> Use:
>
> 5 Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD
>
> Then:
>
> L Label The disk Label editor
> F Fdisk The disk Slice (PC-style partition) Editor
>
> I fount it easier. Not easy... But easier..
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to reuse an old DOS extended partition to extend my FreeBSD
> > diskspace. My primary FreeBSD partition is wd0s3, the partition I am
> > trying
> > to use is wd0s6.
> >
> > The disktools only seem aimed at installing onto primary partitions so I
> > am
> > using disklabel etal. However, with no luck, when I try to label the
> > disk I
> > get:
> >
> > putte:~# disklabel -w -r wd0s6 auto
> > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
> > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type
> >
> > Any other suggestions as to how to do this?
> >
> > Regards/Mark
> >
> > PS Running 3.1-RELEASE
> >
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