From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 21:13:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2625D15011 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA93480; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:16:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199909280416.AAA93480@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: newfs at msdos extended In-Reply-To: <19990927194630.A1786@psi.antar.bryansk.ru> from Sergey W Homenkow at "Sep 27, 1999 07:46:30 pm" To: hsw@psi.antar.bryansk.ru (Sergey W Homenkow) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sergey W Homenkow wrote, > Hi, All! > > I have 3 primary partition and 1 msdos extended. > I want to use free space on msdos extended partition > to mount as /usr. > Can i do this ? > If yes, what i will do (step-by-step) ? FreeBSD can mount extended DOS partitions, but it cannot live inside of one. You can mount an extended partition as /usr, but it would be DOS. And that would break a lot of things that assume /usr is a UNIX-type (multiuser) FS. If you only have 4 partitions anyway, why not make them all 'real' ones. And finally, remember that multiple FreeBSD partitions can (and usually do) live within one DOS partition (or in FreeBSDese, 'slices'). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message