GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions

[Alexey Shuvaev]

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.