From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 1 09:51:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01770 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01761 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA10564; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:51:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id SAA29332; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:38:52 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:38:52 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sja@tekla.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Subject: Re: Error Message (mounting a DOS partition) References: <9702010912.AA26068@poveri.tekla.fi> <19142.854812499@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19142.854812499@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Feb 1, 1997 07:54:59 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > /dev/wd0s3 is DOS D: and can NOT be mounted from FreeBSD. > > No, /dev/wd0s3 is NOT DOS D:. :-) > > /dev/wd0s4 is DOS D:. Only in rare cases. :-) Slice number 0 never appears in a name, since it's an alias for the non-sliced device (or compatibility slice), like in /dev/wd0a. Slices number 1 through 4 are hard-coded for the four standard fdisk table slots, regardless of whether they're actually in use or not. So unless you have created e.g. DOS drive C: in slot #3 and another DOS slice in #4, /dev/wd0s4 is not drive D:. (The DOS tools IMHO don't let you create two DOS slices in the primary fdisk table, although they are able to use them.) ``Extended partitions'' start with slice number 5 in FreeBSD, and their slice entries are only valid if there's indeed something to map. So, DOS drive D: is most likely /dev/[r]wd0s5. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)