Re: GEOM question

2002-10-17 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > > > >>Bruce Evans wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Don't use extended partitions directly. It is easy to > >>>make a mess by clobbering the pointers to the logical drive > >>>within them. > > >>I need to ask for cl

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-16 Thread walt
Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > > >>Bruce Evans wrote: >> >> >>>Don't use extended partitions directly. It is easy to >>>make a mess by clobbering the pointers to the logical drive >>>within them. >>I need to ask for clarification on this point. What do you >>mean by '

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-16 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > Don't use extended partitions directly. It is easy to > > make a mess by clobbering the pointers to the logical drive > > within them. > > I need to ask for clarification on this point. What do you > mean by 'directly'? Just write to

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-16 Thread walt
Bruce Evans wrote: > Don't use extended partitions directly. It is easy to > make a mess by clobbering the pointers to the logical drive > within them. I need to ask for clarification on this point. What do you mean by 'directly'? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-15 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Evans) writes: > > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > > > > Well, disklabel won't work on an extended/logical partition... > > > Um, disklabel works on any slice. E.g.: > > We have a semantic problem, as often happens when the DOS

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-15 Thread walt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Evans) writes: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > > Well, disklabel won't work on an extended/logical partition... > Um, disklabel works on any slice. E.g.: > ttyv1:root@gamplex:/tmp> disklabel ad2s3 > #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-15 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, walt wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walt writes: > > > >>Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical > >>partition for a BSD filesystem? > > > We already support that as far as I know, both with and without GE

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-15 Thread walt
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walt writes: > >>Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical >>partition for a BSD filesystem? > We already support that as far as I know, both with and without GEOM Yes! The reason I could never make it w

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-14 Thread Eric Hodel
walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical > partition for a BSD filesystem? This would add a great deal of > flexibility for adding disk space to a full filesystem, just as one > example. You can also use md to do this, I mount my

Re: GEOM question

2002-10-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walt writes: >Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical >partition for a BSD filesystem? This would add a great deal of >flexibility for adding disk space to a full filesystem, just as one >example. We already support that as far as I

GEOM question

2002-10-14 Thread walt
Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical partition for a BSD filesystem? This would add a great deal of flexibility for adding disk space to a full filesystem, just as one example. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i