Geom tasting exfat slices

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 02.02.2014 11:29, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Yes, it does, but it thinks the slice is NTFS when it is actually exFAT.
> Should geom recognize exFAT?
> 
> 1. Name: ada0s5
>    Mediasize: 241171431424 (225G)
>    Sectorsize: 512
>    Stripesize: 4096
>    Stripeoffset: 0
>    Mode: r1w1e0
>    rawtype: 7
>    length: 241171431424
>    offset: 1048576
>    type: ntfs
>    index: 1
>    end: 471039999
>    start: 0
> 
> Actually, I only have 4 slices. 3 are NTFS and the other is exFAT. I have
> deleted the partition on Windows, but I seem to only be able to create an
> EBR partition, for some reason. Maybe something is still retaining a
> primary partition and maybe gpart can really delete it. I'd rather use GPT,
> but my ThinkPad won't boot from a GPT disk that is not EFT.
> 
> 
> If I can get t to be a Primary partition, perhaps GEOM will recognize it,
> but I'm not confident of that.
> 
> Thanks so much for pointing out the obvious that I was missing. I'll play
> aroudn with it some more tomorrow and see what I can get it to do.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type
the type number 7 is shared between several types of partitions.
So there is nothing wrong, just use this partition.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov