On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:53:50PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Am Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:06:13 -0800 > schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>: > > > 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.Received on Wed Feb 04 2009 - 20:07:01 UTC
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