On Apr 12, 2015, at 5:55 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > My reaction is that vnconfig is for making a file look like a disk, and > that the problem you are having with addressing part of the disk is a > disk problem, not a file problem. So the solution to it should apply > equally to a vnd as to a physcial disk. Consider what you would do if > you had attached a physical disk to your system to prepare instead. > > For vm images, I tend to use bare disklabel and not fdisk, and thus can > address the partitions using vnd0a, vnd0e, etc.
Thanks for the clue. For some reason I missed the obvious, but you are right that vnconfig will expose the whole file as a disk that can be partitioned, etc. just like normal. Sorry for the diversion. Cheers, Brook
