Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:51:30 -0400 From: Robin Woolard <RWoolard@NewWorldApps.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FDISK and extended partition... Message-ID: <48F26311AF9C9943926CA0CD204BC2140C3F8A@nwa-srv-01.newworldapps.com>
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I have a large hard drive that I'm trying to partition for FreeBSD. I've got my primary partition set up in FDISK and I am trying to set up the rest of the drive as an extended partition. The FDISK help does not mention any partition type numbers *except* for the native FreeBSD partition type (165). I have been using the online installation manual and there is a reference to an extended partition on one of the graphics (check out Figure 8-4 at http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/sgml_prev/fdiskall.html). However, there is no mention of extended partition type numbers in the text of the manual. According to Figure 8-4, the type for extended is 15 but when I try to enter 15 as a partition type, I get a type of "extended dos, LBA", not "extended" as in Figure 8-4. I do not want a DOS partition type. I would like to use a FreeBSD extended partition type if possible. Does anyone know what number the extended partition uses or where I can find a list of the partition types and their respective numbers? Thanks, R. Woolard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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