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Subject: Re: Partitioning for multiple systems
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2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson <jorg_andersson@lavabit.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote:
>> I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all
>
> I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this
> still the case?

They show up just fine here (8-current),
and I am fairly sure they were visible in
/dev when I was running 7.x

The "big deal" is that you can't (easily)
install FreeBSD on a logical slice.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3194

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