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 them using anything that doesn't understand that they are containers for logical drives. E.g., newfs would leave their boot record intact since it leaves some sectors for the label and boot blocks, but it would scribble over any logical drives within the extended partition in a non-useful way. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
