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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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