From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 16:14:24 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 1BD9F37B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.get-linux.org (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 261BD43F3F for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oremanj@www.get-linux.org) Received: (qmail 51722 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Mar 2003 00:16:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:16:11 -0800 From: Joshua Oreman To: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <20030327001611.GA49080@webserver.get-linux.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Meyer , 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> <3E81EC91.3010500@gmx.de> <16001.62247.178774.960037@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16001.62247.178774.960037@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-26.1 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) 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: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:14:25 -0000 On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:36:23PM -0600 or thereabouts, Mike Meyer arranged some electrons to write: > 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. > I was experimenting with this too. I made two ports of other fdisk utilites that could handle extended partitions: OpenBSD fdisk and Linux fdisk. If you want them, go: http://64.161.78.226/openbsd-fdisk-freebsd-port.tar.gz http://64.161.78.226/linux-fdisk-freebsd-port.tar.gz Note that Linux cfdisk is included in the linux fdisk package but doesn't work. The port is just enough to be able to edit ptable with linux fdisk. OpenBSD fdisk seems to work fine. Hope this helps! > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- Josh