From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 21 15:03:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06451 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:03:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06441 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05300; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:01:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Ovens cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS on extended partitions In-Reply-To: <34C21CD7.EFAF2459@globalnet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Mark Ovens wrote: > I've just up-graded to 2.2.5 from 2.1.0 and need to take advantage > of the new support for extended partitions but can anyone tell me if it > is possible to install a UFS filesystem on an extended partition?. No. > Alternatively, is it possible to extend the size of the existing > FreeBSD partition (a la Partition Magic)?. Any ideas anyone? I don't think PM recognizes ufs partitions. You'd have to double check tho. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major