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On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Robert Kopp <iconoklas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I could not modify the contents of my second drive with gparted, and the > partition table looks like this: /dev/sdb1 * 7822369801953529577 585646299 > a5 FreeBSD > /dev/sdb2 235352062 782227455 273437697 5 Extended > /dev/sdb5 235352064 245116927 4882432 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sdb6 245118976 293945343 24413184 83 Linux > /dev/sdb7 293947392 782227455 244140032 83 Linux > Says, "Unallocated." > The situation is that FreeBSD is really at the high end of the drive, primary > partition, should be sdb8. Primary partitions are always sdb1, sdb2, sdb3, or sdb4. Never 5+. 5+ are for logical partitions within an extended partition. > Where sdb1 really is should be free space starting at the beginning, probably > 63, and going to just before sdb2, or 235352062. Free space isn't given an identifier, so it isn't going to be sdb1 or sdb<anything>. > Does someone know how to do this, or where I could find out how to do it > (probably with fdisk?). The numeric portion of the identifier isn't used to identify the order on the disk that the partitions have. It's fairly normal that they'd be out of order like that if you set the FreeBSD partition up before your Extended partition. If you want to get it in the right order, I think what you do is run fdisk, go into extra functionality mode (press x), and 'fix partition order' (press f). I'm not sure, but I suspect it will make sdb2 into sdb1, and sdb1 will become sdb2 (their order on the disk). > > Robert "Tim" Kopp > http://analytic.tripod.com/ > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Vincent L. Damewood +1.503.926.4563 http://damewood.us/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
