From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 2 07:49:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A134E99A for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 07:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from forward10l.mail.yandex.net (forward10l.mail.yandex.net [84.201.143.143]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5237015BF for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 07:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp18.mail.yandex.net (smtp18.mail.yandex.net [95.108.252.18]) by forward10l.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 411A7BA0D65; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 11:49:24 +0400 (MSK) Received: from smtp18.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp18.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id E49D718A0344; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 11:49:23 +0400 (MSK) Received: from 84.201.164.106-vpn.dhcp.yndx.net (84.201.164.106-vpn.dhcp.yndx.net [84.201.164.106]) by smtp18.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id 6CRy7da26A-nNdmRC64; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 11:49:23 +0400 (using TLSv1 with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Yandex-Uniq: ba73d94a-36f2-455f-90df-c6f4f3b87d2a DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1391327363; bh=s3aTryLSvqtXTxJJ7FmwDJejL0vAw+vyMMFH3UeJYPA=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=iTvL1wrSko6PcdNSPy+C5jtkfiNxLCuAvWwxrHZ9006y0i4ITIgOqFSZNu4vwMswI NxquJ/OpX/Nh4IOaJxnxNpeuPOJq/Vq0ImplaZLOTlDli8QfUyOVOY9oOj93qGrOqL Mv+1+gX7BvDzvlMLfTTYFtZlr7tFb0mxxN9mM23M= Authentication-Results: smtp18.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Message-ID: <52EDF836.4000507@yandex.ru> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:48:06 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: Geom tasting exfat slices References: <52EDEF19.3020500@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Geom ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 07:49:28 -0000 On 02.02.2014 11:29, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Yes, it does, but it thinks the slice is NTFS when it is actually exFAT. > Should geom recognize exFAT? > > 1. Name: ada0s5 > Mediasize: 241171431424 (225G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 4096 > Stripeoffset: 0 > Mode: r1w1e0 > rawtype: 7 > length: 241171431424 > offset: 1048576 > type: ntfs > index: 1 > end: 471039999 > start: 0 > > Actually, I only have 4 slices. 3 are NTFS and the other is exFAT. I have > deleted the partition on Windows, but I seem to only be able to create an > EBR partition, for some reason. Maybe something is still retaining a > primary partition and maybe gpart can really delete it. I'd rather use GPT, > but my ThinkPad won't boot from a GPT disk that is not EFT. > > > If I can get t to be a Primary partition, perhaps GEOM will recognize it, > but I'm not confident of that. > > Thanks so much for pointing out the obvious that I was missing. I'll play > aroudn with it some more tomorrow and see what I can get it to do. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type the type number 7 is shared between several types of partitions. So there is nothing wrong, just use this partition. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov