From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 23:47:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD7014CBF for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:47:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com) Received: from d1o1.telia.com (root@d1o1.telia.com [195.67.240.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07943; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 08:47:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from doorway.home.lan (t2o1p7.telia.com [195.67.240.67]) by d1o1.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03551; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 08:46:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from stockholm.mail.telia.com (putte.home.lan [192.168.255.2]) by doorway.home.lan (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA20780; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 07:46:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mark.hannon@stockholm.mail.telia.com) Message-ID: <36E220D7.846A2C9A@stockholm.mail.telia.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 07:46:47 +0100 From: Mark Hannon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark S. Reichman" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use extended partition for FreeBSD? References: <36E14B67.E5427D07@stockholm.mail.telia.com> <36E19082.B11A7AC5@borg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, But my problem is that it is wd0s6, ie a 'logical' drive within the DOS extended partition that I have available and logical drives do not appear in fdisk! When I fire up /stand/sysinstall I see this: Disk name: wd0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 523 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8401995 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 2056257 2056319 wd0s1 2 fat 11 2056320 5510295 7566614 wd0s2 4 extended 5 7566615 835380 8401994 wd0s3 3 freebsd 165 C 8401995 2835 8404829 - 6 unused 0 It is not possible to look inside the extended partition! Regards/Mark "Mark S. Reichman" wrote: > 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