From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 19:51:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nwa-srv-01.newworldapps.com (nwa-srv-01.newworldapps.com [66.22.66.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C654537B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RWoolard@NewWorldApps.com) Received: by nwa-srv-01.newworldapps.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 22:51:35 -0400 Message-ID: <48F26311AF9C9943926CA0CD204BC2140C3F8A@nwa-srv-01.newworldapps.com> From: Robin Woolard To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FDISK and extended partition... Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:51:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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