Using extended partitions.. ?

Gobbledegeek gobbledegeek at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 17:34:53 UTC 2006


Well Well. .Surprise surprise!! Using extended logical partitions in
freebsd is easier than I thought!

I ran disklabel -w  /dev/ad8s9 , then newfs to create a new ufs2
filesystem, and then added the new ufs partition to /etc/fstab.
Likewise with my other logical partitions /dev/ad8s10, ad8s11 etc...
which were linux ext3fs earlier. Now I'm richer by 30gb!! Hiyaaa!
Whaddayaknow! I also read my xp  ntfs logical d: drive, so now I can
download in any OS and still access them from fbsd.

My linux is gone of course, but who wants linux with the linux ABI on fbsd?

As simple as that!

I'm on fbsd 6.1-p3 fyi.

Rgrds

On 7/29/06, Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Partition magic  looks like  the  least painful option. Thanks for  the tip.
>
> I'm just  gonna try newfs on  the logical partitions once and  see  :)
>  after I  change t ptype to ufs  from  linux  fdisk.... just  for
> kicks..
>
> Rgrds
>
> On 7/29/06, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote:
> >  > Message: 15
> >
> >  > Thanks all.  I  have XP and linux  share  the  xtended partition,  and
> >  >  now I want to say bye bye  linux (I  need  XP for worldwind  s/w) .
> >
> > That's different then.  If you want to keep XP (and keep it within that
> > extended partition) then you can't delete the extended partition.  You
> > could use Partition Magic (ono) to delete the linux logical drive, then
> > shrink the extended partition to make space for another slice (maximum
> > of four), which is what you'll need for another UFS slice.
> >
> >  > Ido not  see the extended  logical drives containing  ext3 from
> >  > sysinstall that  is the problem.
> >
> > You won't - fdisk sees the four slices only, the 'extended partition'
> > being one of those entire, with it's specific type.
> >
> > What does just 'fdisk' say? (you can do this anytime, it just lists)
> >
> > The view from linux &| XP fdisk may be useful also.
> >
> >  > The cmdline freebsd  fdisk feels  like  a  throw  back tp the  pdp-11 days :)
> >
> > Definitely to be used with due care.  I generally prefer trusting
> > sysinstall to be good with the maths - but keep a beady eye on it too.
> >
> >  > So I'm  going to  try and  mount  them  from bsd  below  my  home
> >  > folder,  without deleting them first... until I work  out  exactly how
> >  >  to  use  the fbsd fdiks  cmdline without  damaging  anything.
> >
> > You can mount them, readonly anyway, knowing that the first 'logical
> > drive' within the 'extended partition' appears as ad0s5, the second as
> > ad0s6 etc, assuming ad0 of course.
> >
> > Cheers, Ian
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Rgrds
> GobbledeGeek
> [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!]
>


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