From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 19:23:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA26418 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [206.63.206.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA26402 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wJrii-000ZMcC; Tue, 22 Apr 97 19:23 PDT Received: from apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by apple.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wJrii-0006uQC; Tue, 22 Apr 97 19:23 PDT Message-Id: To: Wolfgang Helbig cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted disk slice References: <199704222224.AAA03370@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:24:10 +0200." <199704222224.AAA03370@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <17866.861762223.1@apple.statsci.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:23:44 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > Extended partitions are not recognized by our fdisk, so it says it's > unused. That's not true. As my inclusion of my 'fdisk' output showed, my extended partition is partition 1 (aka slice 2): The data for partition 1 is: sysid 5,(Extended DOS) start 1048320, size 3144960 (1535 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 130/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 519/ sector 63/ head 127 > If you build a file system on slice four, it is overlaid by the extended > partition and the logical partitions inside the extended partition. No - there is nothing magic about slice four. (this is all on a 2.1.5R system, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the same thing on earlier versions) Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org