Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:08:01 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: dima@irs.riga.lv (Dmitry Solodov) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed: fdisk troubles Message-ID: <199705301808.NAA29235@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <338f0d30.irs@irs.riga.lv> from Dmitry Solodov at "May 30, 97 07:23:59 pm"
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In a previous message, Dmitry Solodov said:
> Hello,
>
> Partition Information
> Name Status Access FS Type MBytes
> None : Primary FreeSpace 7
> Merlin Bootable F: Logical HPFS 1019
> None G: Logical HPFS 517
> None H: Logical Unformatted 502
>
>
> When FreeBSD fdisk is run through Novice installation, it shows for the
> same disk ( /dev/sd2)
> Disk geometry: 261 cyls/255 heads/ 63 sectors = 4192965 sectors
> 0 16065 16064 - 6 unused 0
> 16065 4176900 4192964 sd2s1 4 extended 5
> 4192965 1339 4194303 - 6 unused 0
>
> So for me it seems like FreeBSD fdisk sees all the extended partitions as one
> big partition.
An extended partition IS just one big partition. Logical partitions are
inside the extended partition.
> The approach when free space is left on the disk, and then the partition is
> created with FreeBSD fdisk does not work for me, as in this case primary
> partition is created. But FreeBSD boots fine in the case.
Sorry, that's how it goes. FreeBSD must have it's one real partition.
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