Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:48:06 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Geom ML <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Geom tasting exfat slices Message-ID: <52EDF836.4000507@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vNhR1OCdFSVC8KdWz4CC34wKeU_%2BGB=xpN1hW=3b_yxA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1uiKifWxwbRJ5naTxBEwcyT=z_=gDQQfeCAWp7PnUsvxw@mail.gmail.com> <52EDEF19.3020500@yandex.ru> <CAN6yY1vNhR1OCdFSVC8KdWz4CC34wKeU_%2BGB=xpN1hW=3b_yxA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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