From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 1:50:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mr200.netcologne.de (mr200.netcologne.de [194.8.194.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032F637B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 01:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from husten.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-181.netcologne.de [213.168.64.181]) by mr200.netcologne.de (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AAV13747; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:50:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by husten.security.at12.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f149oKw83332; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:50:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:50:20 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman To: Mike Meyer Cc: Subject: Re: Slice mangler for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <14972.39668.708110.32850@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message