From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 10:36:26 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 B40F737B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:36:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98C7543FE9 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:36:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1049135784.46af66@mired.org) Received: (qmail 48731 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2003 18:36:24 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 2003 18:36:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16001.62247.178774.960037@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:36:23 -0600 To: Siegbert Baude In-Reply-To: <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de> References: <3E81D7AE.60603@centtech.com> <3E81E0F2.4060801@gmx.de> <3E81E15C.4050208@centtech.com> <3E81E34D.1010503@gmx.de> <16001.59693.892788.392814@guru.mired.org> <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.71 (Hoop, Jr.) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.9 required=5.0 tests=FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: Eric Anderson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:36:27 -0000 In <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de>, Siegbert Baude typed: > >>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. Ah, I understand you this time. The FreeBSD tools for manipulating slices don't grok extended slices. I forget what I used to do this - possibly Linux fdisk - but it wasn't the FreeBSD tools. The alternative on FreeBSD is to do the calculation by hand, as you said. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.