Using extended partitions.. ?

[Charles Swiger]

On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Gobbledegeek wrote:
> I've wanted to try  this for a  long time,  but  I believed  its  not
> possible,  but  never  asked  anyone so....
>
> Is  it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions)  on a
> single disk?

Sure.  You'd be mounting filesystems from /dev/ad0s2 rather than  
ad0s1, for example, depending on your hard drive position in the ATA  
chain and which FDISK partitions you've used.

> For  example, I  already got a  fbsd slice  with
> partitions in it,  now  I  want to  add  another and  use that  space,
> after deleting  a windoze partition.

Should be no problem.

> What about using  an  extended  logical  partition  as  a freebsd   
> slice?

IMHO, logical partitions are pure evil which was invented to work  
around the 4-partition FDISK limit, and are nearly useless to  
anything which creates its own slices or subpartitions within an  
FDISK partition the way BSD or Linux can.

YMMV, but I would convert the extended partition into a normal one  
and use it directly within FreeBSD, as I do not believe you can boot  
from extended partitions...

-- 
-Chuck