From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 23:59:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA14456 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14449 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.csie.nctu.edu.tw (phoenix.csie.nctu.edu.tw [140.113.17.171]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA18696 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 23:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw (freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw [140.113.235.250]) by phoenix.csie.nctu.edu.tw (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id OAA12643 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 14:50:42 +0800 (CST) Received: (from jason@localhost) by FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA08896 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 14:52:06 +0800 (CST) From: CQ CQ de Jason Message-Id: <199610130652.OAA08896@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> Subject: How to use a logical partition To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 14:52:06 +0800 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My HD is currently partitioned as the following: sd0s1 DOS (primary) install Chinese version of Win95 sd0s2 DOS (primary) install English version of Win95 sd0s3 FreeBSD (primary) sd0s4 Extended sd0s5 DOS D:\ sd0s6 DOS E:\ sd0s7 *FreeBSD* (created by Linux fdisk) the problem here is I don't know how to use this sd0s7 under my FreeBSD. #disklabel -rw sd0s7 auto disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument #newfs /dev/rsd0s7 newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument newfs: /dev/rsd0s7: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified -- Jason Chang