Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 01:42:06 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR Message-ID: <20180708014206.24a268a6@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20180708014204.57b34879.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com> <f57a5540-9736-53bf-5312-166a1b2e23b0@yandex.com> <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com> <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com> <20180708000437.2dd95933@gumby.homeunix.com> <20180708014204.57b34879.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 01:42:04 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > From my understanding (and explained off-list), FreeBSD > requires a 'a' BSD-labeled partition (inside a slice in > case of MBR, or on a disk if "dedicated") to boot from. > It doesn't seem to be possible to label a partition 'a' > without using labels. > > The label 'c' for data partitions is implicit and will > be synonymous for "the whole thing" (slice, disk), as > it is generated by using newfs on a MBR slice directly > (no matter if "DOS primary partition" or "logical volume > inside DOS extended partition"). It's certainly possible to put UFS on a disk, or an MBR partition, without labelling. I don't recall seeing a 'c' but I might be wrong.
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