Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 18:38:01 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, sab@seanet.com Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices" Message-ID: <199809030039.SAA02546@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19980902192055.A12622@emsphone.com> References: <199809030005.SAA02250@lariat.lariat.org> <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199808021131.FAA12204@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199809021901.MAA21131@two.sabami.seaslug.org> <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> <19980902175652.A11500@emsphone.com> <199809030005.SAA02250@lariat.lariat.org>
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You can't have an extended partition within an extended partition, so this diagram "does not compute." --Brett At 07:20 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: >In the last episode (Sep 02), Brett Glass said: >> At 05:56 PM 9/2/98 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote >> >+--------+-----------------------------------------------------+ >> >| C: | extended partition | >> >+--------+- - - - + - - - -+- - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ >> > | D: | E: | F: | extended part. | >> > +--------------------------+ - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ >> > | G: | H: | I: | >> > +--------------------------+ >> > >> >In your naming scheme, what would drive 'G:' be? wd1s2da ? >> >> DOS logical drives are not slices! They're the equivalent of >> disklabel partitions and should have letters at the end. > >What would you like the dos drive 'G:' named in your naming scheme? > > -Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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