Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:30:14 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Martin <nakal@web.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions Message-ID: <EF0E3768-DF76-4AF5-9CDF-646DF44E69B3@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20090204004534.11ccca19@zelda.local> References: <FCA8C5E4-BC41-4711-9EBC-CD692144F6B8@mac.com> <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> <D35C93DE-CB3F-4631-AC38-4CCCE3877C23@mac.com> <20090204004534.11ccca19@zelda.local>
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On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Martin wrote: > Am Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:15:50 -0800 > schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>: > >> 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. I don't see a mess with XP. I can easily remove the first logical partition and then fill the space again... > Then, it is quite unusual to insert a new logical partition and copy > all entries in the list one place down. What do you mean copy? > First because people usually > allocate the logical partitions from the start of the "extended > partition" container and move on till it's fully allocated. Sure, but you can remove any logical partition in any order, which means that subsequent adds can also be in any order... > 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? Yes, but those will be using the "fixed" names, not the softlinks. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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