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Old 13th June 2009
gosha gosha is offline
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Thanks a lot.
I know, it seems I've not read the faq and manpages, but I did many times in the past to install OpenBSD, but could never fully understand the difference between the partition in fdisk and in disklabel and also this head/sector thing.
Now, if I get it right, I could make my four partitions in fdisk and then for every of them add extended partitions with disklabel, right?
So, Ocicat, you say I could make one big partition in fdisk and then extended partitions using disklabel. That could be fine for me. I was thinking about doing it with fdisk to start using only part of the disk, and then if needed make the new partition, maybe, if needed using another filesystem (if the primary partition is, say, ffs, disklabel cannot make a ext2 partition, right?)
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