From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Apr 21 00:47:30 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27274
          for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:47:30 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27267
          for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:47:25 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from helbig@localhost)
	by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA13259
	for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:47:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
Message-Id: <199704210747.JAA13259@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
Subject: disklabel on an logical partition
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:47:01 +0200 (MET DST)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (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

Hi,

Is it possible to disklabel a logical partition? We tried to disklabel
the first logical partition as
	disklabel -w /dev/rsd0s5 auto
and got
	"not a generic disktype -- cannot use auto"
or something similar.

This was on a FreeBSD 2.1.7 box, the device files /dev/rsd0s5 and 
/dev/sd0s5 were created by 
	sh MAKEDEV sd0s5

The extended and first logical partition were created by Linux utilities.

I am using "partition" instead of "slice" in this question because
the terms "extended slice" and "logical slice" don't sound familiar (yet).

Any tips appreciating

Wolfgang