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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:48:21 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount_ext2fs and ext3?
Message-ID:  <20011211194821.GA12892@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <20011211124610.Y93662-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
References:  <20011211150806.GA899@gforce.johnson.home> <20011211124610.Y93662-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>

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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
>
> > [2] Is the Linux partition on a primary or extended partition?  I do
> >     not think FreeBSD can mount an extended partition.
>
> No, but that is because an extended partition does not have a
> filesystem in it =0). What you can do is mount the filesystem which
> are in the logical partitions inside the extended one.
>
> That is, if in linux the file system is in /dev/hda7, in FreeBSD you
> mount /dev/ad0s7.

When I wrote extended partition I actually meant the logical partitions
contained on the extended partition.  I did not realize you could
actually mount them under FreeBSD however.  For some reason I was under
the impression that the Linux partition had to be a primary partition.

Thanks for clearing that up.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net

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