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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:32:08 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        X Philius <xphilius@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to mount an extended DOS partition
Message-ID:  <20011017113208.D91685@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011017162301.8385.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20011017162301.8385.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Oct 17), X Philius said:
> I hasve a tri-boot machine (Win98, Win2K and FreeBSD), and I would
> like to use the same extended partition for files, sharing it between
> all three OS's. I have successfully mounted a primary DOS partition
> using the mount_msdos command, but I get an error when I try to mount
> an extended partition (mount_msdos: /dev/ad2s2: Invalid argument). Is
> there another command I can use, or is this not possible? Thanks in
> advance.

You don't want to mount the extended partition itself; you want to
mount the logical partition inside it.  They start at s5, so try
/dev/ad2s5 first.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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