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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:50:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Slice mangler for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102041047390.12653-100000@husten.security.at12.de>
In-Reply-To: <14972.39668.708110.32850@guru.mired.org>

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On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Can someone recommend a tool for managing DOS slices on FreeBSD?
> In particular, I'd like to be able to create slices in the
> extended partition to work with. fdisk doesn't seem to be up to
> the job.

I once used Linux's fdisk under Linux-emu.  The only thing that didn't
work was an special Linux ioctl() call on the drive which tried to get
the drive's geometry.  If you just type in the geometry yourself, it
works great.

-Paul.



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