From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 21:07:01 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 C0165106564A for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4550F8FC23 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:07:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from virusscan.mail (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B459198E54; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:06:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5FD198E53; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:06:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wthp192.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.192]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB06198E4E; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:06:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from wep4035 ([132.187.37.35]) by mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Lotus Domino Release 8.0.2HF443) with ESMTP id 2009020422065845-25620 ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:06:58 +0100 Received: by wep4035 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:07:00 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:07:00 +0100 To: FreeBSD Current Message-ID: <20090204210700.GA44684@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> <20090204004534.11ccca19@zelda.local> <20090204082718.0f217b1a@zelda.local> <9D6C9DA2-7BBB-42C6-9F3E-4B8EF2078969@mac.com> <20090204215350.0bc7a307@zelda.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090204215350.0bc7a307@zelda.local> Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/04/2009 10:06:58 PM, Serialize by Router on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/04/2009 10:06:58 PM, Serialize complete at 02/04/2009 10:06:58 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Cc: Marcel Moolenaar 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: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:07:02 -0000 On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:53:50PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Am Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:06:13 -0800 > schrieb Marcel Moolenaar : > > > Please read: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_partition > > > > and then explain what you mean. > > > > > /dev/ad0s1.2 > > > > No, you have 0. > > > > > now you can insert 0 again and you get: > > > > > > /dev/ad0s1.0 > > > /dev/ad0s1.2 > > > > You'll have 0 and 1. > > I see your point. This works different from what I thought. Sorry for > the confusion. The wikipedia article made it clear to me. > Just curious how important is it to support this extended partitioning scheme? Why could not gpt be used instead? I am using it quite happy for some time (this is amd64 CURRENT): ~> geom part show => 34 976773101 ad6 GPT (466G) 34 1571840 1 freebsd-ufs (768M) 1571874 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) 9960482 1024 3 freebsd-boot (512K) 9961506 8388608 4 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 18350114 524288 5 freebsd-ufs (256M) 18874402 134217728 6 freebsd-ufs (64G) 153092130 33554432 7 freebsd-ufs (16G) 186646562 33554432 8 freebsd-ufs (16G) 220200994 756572141 - free - (361G) Alexey.