Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:46:25 -0500 From: "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com> To: Mark Hannon <mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use extended partition for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <36E2E5A1.3140BCC5@borg.com> References: <36E14B67.E5427D07@stockholm.mail.telia.com> <36E19082.B11A7AC5@borg.com> <36E220D7.846A2C9A@stockholm.mail.telia.com> <36E270C1.1C580F85@borg.com> <36E2C74F.3135680A@stockholm.mail.telia.com>
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What is the name of this magic dos shareware partitioning prog?
I might need to use it one day.
Your dos prog seems to have been the easier method.
You da man!
-Later Mark
Mark Hannon wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I solved this in another way! I downloaded a dos based shareware partition
> editor,
> removed wd0s6, shrunk the extended partition and thus made room to create a new
> primary partition in place of wd0s6. Once that was done I was up and away and
> /stand/sysinstall worked fine
> /mark
>
> >
> >
> > Mark Hannon wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > But my problem is that it is wd0s6, ie a 'logical' drive within the DOS
> > > extended partition that I have available and logical drives do not appear
> > > in fdisk! When I fire up /stand/sysinstall I see this:
> > >
> > > Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor
> > >
> > > DISK Geometry: 523 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8401995 sectors
> > >
> > > Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
> > >
> > > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
> > > 63 2056257 2056319 wd0s1 2 fat 11
> > > 2056320 5510295 7566614 wd0s2 4 extended 5
> > > 7566615 835380 8401994 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C
> > > 8401995 2835 8404829 - 6 unused 0
> > >
> > > It is not possible to look inside the extended partition!
> > >
> > > Regards/Mark
> > >
> > > "Mark S. Reichman" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just did this... About 2 weeks ago actually.
> > > > I used /stand/sysinstall for the whole thing.
> > > >
> > > > Use:
> > > >
> > > > 5 Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD
> > > >
> > > > Then:
> > > >
> > > > L Label The disk Label editor
> > > > F Fdisk The disk Slice (PC-style partition) Editor
> > > >
> > > > I fount it easier. Not easy... But easier..
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am trying to reuse an old DOS extended partition to extend my FreeBSD
> > > > > diskspace. My primary FreeBSD partition is wd0s3, the partition I am
> > > > > trying
> > > > > to use is wd0s6.
> > > > >
> > > > > The disktools only seem aimed at installing onto primary partitions so I
> > > > > am
> > > > > using disklabel etal. However, with no luck, when I try to label the
> > > > > disk I
> > > > > get:
> > > > >
> > > > > putte:~# disklabel -w -r wd0s6 auto
> > > > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
> > > > > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type
> > > > >
> > > > > Any other suggestions as to how to do this?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards/Mark
> > > > >
> > > > > PS Running 3.1-RELEASE
> > > > >
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