From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 15 18: 0:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCE137B400 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3G105I10477; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204160100.g3G105I10477@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: kern/37063: [PATCH] kernel does not support extended linux partitions Reply-To: Bruce Evans Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/37063; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans To: Aggelos Oikonomopoulos Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/37063: [PATCH] kernel does not support extended linux partitions Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:00:21 +1000 (EST) On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Aggelos Oikonomopoulos wrote: > >Description: > The kernel does not handle partitions of type 0x85 (extended linux). > An extended linux partition is the same as an extended DOS partition, except for the entry in the partition table. PRs 19756 and 27269 are also about this. I don't agree with changing the current behaviour. Using extended Linux partitions mainly breaks inter-operability with other OS's, including previous versions of FreeBSD. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message