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From: Brian Campbell <brianc@ottawa.net>
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Subject: extended partitions
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:50:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Is it possible to label/newfs/mount extended partitions?  I've got
a 500M /dev/wd0s6 (yes I actually have more than four partitions)
that I'd like to convert to a BSD partition but disklabel has been
uncooperative to say the least (it complains DIOCGDINFO: Invalid
argument).