From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 12:26:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maxcow.borg.com (MaxCow.borg.com [205.217.206.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D6D15031 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@borg.com) Received: from mail.borg.com (mail.borg.com [205.217.206.192]) by maxcow.borg.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05949; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:26:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from borg.com (ip176a.borg.com [208.3.180.176]) by mail.borg.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA18094; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:26:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36E19082.B11A7AC5@borg.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:30:58 -0500 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hannon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use extended partition for FreeBSD? References: <36E14B67.E5427D07@stockholm.mail.telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just did this... About 2 weeks ago actually. I used /stand/sysinstall for the whole thing. Use: 5 Configure Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD Then: L Label The disk Label editor F Fdisk The disk Slice (PC-style partition) Editor I fount it easier. Not easy... But easier.. > > Hi, > > I am trying to reuse an old DOS extended partition to extend my FreeBSD > diskspace. My primary FreeBSD partition is wd0s3, the partition I am > trying > to use is wd0s6. > > The disktools only seem aimed at installing onto primary partitions so I > am > using disklabel etal. However, with no luck, when I try to label the > disk I > get: > > putte:~# disklabel -w -r wd0s6 auto > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type > > Any other suggestions as to how to do this? > > Regards/Mark > > PS Running 3.1-RELEASE > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- \|/ (@ @) +----------oOO----(_)------------------+ | Mark S. Reichman FreeBSD | | mark@borg.com Got source? | | | | May the source be with you! | | | +------------------------oOO-----------+ |__|__| || || ooO Ooo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message