From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 15:31:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11685 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11679 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03370; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:24:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199704222224.AAA03370@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 22, 97 07:32:23 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:24:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: scott@statsci.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, The slice four is used as an extended partition that contains the logical msdos partitions, which are slices five and six. Extended partitions are not recognized by our fdisk, so it says it's unused. If you build a file system on slice four, it is overlaid by the extended partition and the logical partitions inside the extended partition. You can use slice four for FreeBSD only if you do not have logical partitions on the disk. ----------- | | | | s1 | | ----------- | | | | s2 | | ----------- | | | | s3 | | ----------- |.s5......| | | s4 (do *not* use if you have logical partitions) |.s6......| ----------- Wolfgang