Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:47:41 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com, jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.19990218124308.04033d90@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199902181849.NAA04456@pechter.nws.net> References: <199902181552.KAA15641@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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At 01:49 PM 2/18/99 -0500, Bill Pechter wrote: >The difficulty is that Linux can be installed and run completely >out of EXTENDED Partitions (with no primary) and we can't (at least >couldn't in 2.x or 1.x). > >DRAWBACK!!! Actually, with System Commander you can boot out of a "logical drive" in an extended partition. This may be another motivation for cleaning up the way logical drives inside extended partitions are numbered. I'm not a FreeBSD file system expert, and I think several of them would need to be modified to fix the numbering so that there was a way to say "the third logical drive in extended partition N." Right now, there really isn't due to the vagaries of the numbering scheme. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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