From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 20:04:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4C21065672 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9347D8FC21 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:04:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m8LK4KhR081351 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:04:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 164 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7911B8A258 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:04:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 533AE10B; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:04:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:04:19 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080921200419.GA60231@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:04:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8299/Sun Sep 21 18:28:20 2008 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail2.jussieu.fr with ID 48D68CC7.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 48D68CC7.001/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 48D68CC7.001 on jchkmail2.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.078 -> S=0.078 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Subject: Re: lokking for a disk partition editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:04:30 -0000 > I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD > nomenclature) > editor that runs under FreeBSD that is able to deal properly with > logical > partition entries chained from an extended partition entry in the Master > Boot > Record. fdisk(8) appears to be too primitive to understand logical > partitions. /usr/ports/sysutils/linuxfdisk will do the job no problem. This FreeBSD port provides fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk fromLinux, ported to FreeBSD. In turn FreeBSD can make use of logical partitions. -- Michel TALON