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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!gidora.kralizec.net.au!not-for-mail From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: again : extended partitions Date: 17 Jan 1996 21:55:17 +1100 Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4dikil$g18@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <30FC0A91.5A3210F8@public.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.zeta.org.au In article <30FC0A91.5A3210F8@public.uni-hamburg.de>, Lars Hofhansl <lars_hofhansl@public.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: >I received contradictory information about extended >partitions. Some say "yes" other say "no". > >So, as final statement : > >As of 2.1R, does FreeBSD support extended partitions. Support for extended partitions was introduced in 2.0.5R. There is no support for _creating_ extended partitions but you can used existing ones created by other OS's. >That is, can it access already existsing DOS extended partition, No, it can only access logical drives within extended partition(s) (except for the first 4 (primary) extended partitions). E.g., on disk sd0: /dev/sd0s1: 1st primary partition (may be extended) ... /dev/sd0s4: 4th primary partition (may be extended) /dev/sd0s5: 1st logical drive within an extended partition ... /dev/sd0s30: 26th logical drive within an extended partition >and can it be installed itself on a extended partition No, it can only be installed on a logical drive or on a non-extended partition :-). >(to have more than four partition on a single HD) ?! The maximum is 29 slices with file systems on them (3 primary partitions and 26 logical drives). Each FreeBSD slice may be divided into 8 partitions, giving a limit of 28*8 = 232 partitions. >ps. I didn't find anything on that in the FAQ or the >BSD Handbook... The FAQ and the Handbook give different wrong information about this. -- Bruce Evans bde@zeta.org.au