From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 16 8: 2:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B48037B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DD343EB7 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA13830; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:02:07 +1000 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:12:44 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM question In-Reply-To: <3DAD4CD8.3050106@hotmail.com> Message-ID: <20021017010521.L5930-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > Don't use extended partitions directly. It is easy to > > make a mess by clobbering the pointers to the logical drive > > within them. > > I need to ask for clarification on this point. What do you > mean by 'directly'? Just write to them using anything that doesn't understand that they are containers for logical drives. E.g., newfs would leave their boot record intact since it leaves some sectors for the label and boot blocks, but it would scribble over any logical drives within the extended partition in a non-useful way. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message