Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:40:57 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Bryan Batten <BryanBatten@compuserve.com> Cc: Questions for FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Using Extended Partitions Message-ID: <348FA719.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <199712110126_MC2-2B92-21CD@compuserve.com>
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Bryan Batten wrote: > > > > The logical partition I'm trying to get to that is causing me problems is > /dev/hdb6 - which is in the extended partition on the 2nd drive. Here also, > I've used the Linux fdisk as a placeholder to reserve the space and set the > partition type - again with the intention of using the native FreeBSD > facilities to actually create a BSD file system. I'm not totally sure what /dev/hdb6 under FreeBSD, The first 4 real partitions are called wd0s1 through wd0s4 The extended partitons are then known as: wd0s5-> wd0s30 (or in your case wd1 for the second drive) But there is some confusion of the order in which various syetems name them so I'm not sure which it will respond to. In /dev, do a sh MAKEDEV wd1s8 and hopefully it will make entries for slices 1 through 8 (though you may have to make them by hand.. I haven't tried recently) if you boot BSD with the -v flag as in: Boot: -v what do you see? There will probably be a clue in there as to which slice is which (even if only by size) If it goes off the top of the screen, just hit <scroll-lock> and bring it back down with <page-up> Use <scroll-lock> to restart operation. Once we've assertained which slice it is, we can chop it up into BSD partitions and make filesystems. julian > > --------------- > bash(root)# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 1 60 120928+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > /dev/hda2 61 61 126 133056 63 GNU HURD > /dev/hda3 127 127 192 133056 a5 BSD/386 > /dev/hda4 193 193 525 671328 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 193 193 255 126976+ 81 Linux/MINIX > /dev/hda6 256 256 288 66496+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda7 289 289 390 205600+ 83 Linux native > /dev/hda8 391 391 450 120928+ 7 OS/2 HPFS > /dev/hda9 451 451 525 151168+ 81 Linux/MINIX > > Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 1 60 120928+ 7 OS/2 HPFS > /dev/hdb2 61 61 126 133056 9 AIX bootable > /dev/hdb3 * 127 127 192 133056 83 Linux native > /dev/hdb4 193 193 525 671328 5 Extended > /dev/hdb5 193 193 255 126976+ 81 Linux/MINIX > /dev/hdb6 256 256 346 183424+ a5 BSD/386 > /dev/hdb7 347 347 437 183424+ 63 GNU HURD > /dev/hdb8 438 438 525 177376+ 81 Linux/MINIX > ---------------
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