Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:59:52 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: extended DOS partitions <-> /dev/???? Message-ID: <199601240859.JAA10182@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601232220.RAA02886@hopf.math.purdue.edu> from "Clarence Wilkerson" at Jan 23, 96 05:20:09 pm
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As Clarence Wilkerson wrote: > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 86 86 1023 472752 5 Extended > /dev/hda3 * 4 4 85 41328 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > /dev/hda4 1 1 3 1480+ a OS/2 Boot Manager > /dev/hda5 86 86 1023 472720+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > > What is the FreeBSD name for this region of the disk? Better let Bruce answer this... :) Assuming that it's the first entry in the fdisk table of the extended slice, it's /dev/*wd0s5*. Slices 1 trough 4 (*wd0s1* ... *wd0s4*) are reserved for the primary fdisk table. -- 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. ;-)
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