From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 23:45:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708BE1065673 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de (fmmailgate01.web.de [217.72.192.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C71C8FC19 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20E1FCB0D50; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:45:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.236.23.4] (helo=zelda.local) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.110 #277) id 1LUUxV-0004zX-00; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:45:37 +0100 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:45:34 +0100 From: Martin To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20090204004534.11ccca19@zelda.local> In-Reply-To: References: <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nakal@web.de X-Sender: nakal@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18gb7JFWrocVt1ByeS+0eclmQFuSG2GFwyAQIMH sg2o8q4sVcfmsXtXrCU0CTd3+cqroG2xd0P5eLtWOImYmPHiYY 2ytvvyBDk= Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:45:39 -0000 Am Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:15:50 -0800 schrieb Marcel Moolenaar : > What happens if you add a partition to the head of the list? Well, I would never do this, because usually this creates mess with drive letters on MS-DOS and MS-Windows. Then, it is quite unusual to insert a new logical partition and copy all entries in the list one place down. First because people usually allocate the logical partitions from the start of the "extended partition" container and move on till it's fully allocated. Btw, the entries should be sorted to avoid problems with older systems. I remember that win95-fdisk will destroy your whole partition table, if you don't sort it. But this is perhaps not that important here. > > Second thing is, why do you need something like "s5"? > > That's the how logical partitions are named in 7.x I understand it is for compatibility, but the softlinks may introduce new issues, mostly with all the nice geom features. That's why I tried to ask about how you would support the suffixes that geom modules automatically create? Would it still work? -- Martin