Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:23:44 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@apple.statsci.com> To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice Message-ID: <m0wJrii-0006uQC@apple.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:24:10 %2B0200." <199704222224.AAA03370@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> References: <199704222224.AAA03370@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> wrote:
> Extended partitions are not recognized by our fdisk, so it says it's
> unused.
That's not true. As my inclusion of my 'fdisk' output showed, my extended
partition is partition 1 (aka slice 2):
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 5,(Extended DOS)
start 1048320, size 3144960 (1535 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 130/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 519/ sector 63/ head 127
> If you build a file system on slice four, it is overlaid by the extended
> partition and the logical partitions inside the extended partition.
No - there is nothing magic about slice four. (this is all on a 2.1.5R
system, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the same thing on earlier versions)
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