From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 17:23:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA09810 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:23:28 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA09802 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:23:15 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA19617; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:19:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199508310019.RAA19617@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and the Promise 2300+ EIDE controller To: partek@indecent.com (David Anderson) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:19:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "David Anderson" at Aug 30, 95 04:50:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 703 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I don't quite understand this disklabel thing.. In 80 words or less(or > point me to a FAQ), what is it? :) An extended partition editor for extended paritions of type "BSD" as opposed to extended partitions of type "DOS Extended". Where a DOS Extended Partition would have a DOS partition table, BSD "extended paritions" have a record (also called a disklabel). It has 8192 bytes of BSD BIOS boot code and then up to 8 "extended partitions". The "BSD extended paritions" are defined as: 1) root 2) swap ...) user defined How's that for 80 words or less? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.