From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 21:40:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 63F4416A4E5 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA74C43D49 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:40:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (83.253.29.241) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A1364D0063EA77 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:40:01 +0200 Received: (qmail 34625 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2006 23:40:00 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 28 Jul 2006 23:40:00 +0200 Received: (qmail 79918 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Jul 2006 23:40:00 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:40:00 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Gobbledegeek Message-ID: <20060728214000.GA79865@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gobbledegeek , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <463aea570607281355n523f4bfrbda671635aea107b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463aea570607281355n523f4bfrbda671635aea107b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using extended partitions.. ? 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: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:40:02 -0000 On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:25:51AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote: > I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not > possible, but never asked anyone so.... > > Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a > single disk ? Yes, of course. > For example, I already got a fbsd slice with > partitions in it, now I want to add another and use that space, > after deleting a windoze partition. Should work fine. > > What about using an extended logical partition as a freebsd slice? I think that you can do that, but that you won't be able to boot FreeBSD from such a partition. I have never tried using an extended logical partition though, so take this answer with a pinch of salt. > > I am quite comfortable with linus fdisk, but the fbsd one > feels like the plauge to me. Is the linux port of fdisk a better > choice? > > I run all my linux partitions from within ext-logical ones (all > but root) and I want to clear them and reuse them for freebsd. > > Please cc me as I am not subscribed. > -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se