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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partition help in FreeBSD
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 06:57:42 +0000
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> In article <324aab95.15254412@news.clover.net>,
>         dwchan@telerama.lm.com (Dominic W. Chan) writes:
> 
> > drive 1 - which is on my primary controller on the mother board as a
> > slave (Seagate Metalist 2.1G) it is parition in the following way
> >
> > 7 - drive d: 200mb --> Primary Dos Partition (FAT) WinNT 3.51 WS
> > 8 - drive j: 500mb --> Extended, logical (FAT) WinNT 4.0 WS
> > 9.- drive k: 500mb --> Extended, logical (FAT)
> > 10.- drive l: 500mb --> Extended, logical (FAT)
> > 11.- drive m: 310mb --> Extended, logical (FAT)
> >
> > I try to delete my logical partition (l, & m) under both fdisk and
> > WinNT OS.
> [.....]
> 
> Try FIPS from the tools directory on the CD-ROM.  You'll have to remove
> your logical drives l: & m: and then reduce your extended drive by 810
> Mb.
> 
> I'm afraid that this is all AFAIK.  I've never used FIPS - I have a
> (relatively) large tape drive :)
> 

I think you'll find that FIPS works on primary partitions only. At least
this was true for 2.1R; they may have changed that since I installed
FreeBSD on my systems.
-- 
Ken

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