On 2011-Sep-26 21:29:18 -0700, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> wrote: >MBR allows 4 slices (which Windows and most of the world call >partitions). Windows also >allows the creation of "Extended Partitions, but FreeBSD does not >support these. They result >in device named with an 's' for slice. E.g. "da0s1".
To be pedantic, the FreeBSD bootcode does not support _booting_ off extended partitions. Once it is booted, FreeBSD has no problems accessing them. (I don't know if alternative bootcode such as grub can boot FreeBSD within an extended partition). Extended partitions show up as slice numbers 5 through 8 - eg da0s5 -- Peter Jeremy
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