From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 10:08:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C988037B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B637B43F75 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:08:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2QI8DVT029204 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:08:14 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:08:17 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030326 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-25.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: Eric Anderson Subject: Re: disklabel - 8th partition shows "X" as Partition name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:08:19 -0000 Hi Mike, >>I once tried to use (in DOS-terms) logical partitions within an >>extended partition. This is possible, if you do the math and creation >>of partition tables by hand, but is not supported by the FreBSD tools. > > > No, you don't need to do anything by hand. Just disklabel /dev/amr0s5 > and so on, and create the partitions in it. I will note that on > 5.0-RELEASE, the extended slice devices didn't get created for me. Yes, disklabel worked o.k., I talked about potential problems with (DOS-term) partition tables, aka slice tables. It's about two years ago, that I experimented with FBSD and "extended/logical slices", but at least fdisk and /stand/sysinstall didn't support those then. Did this change? At the moment I don't have a spare system to experiment and check this myself. Ciao Siegbert