From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 12:44:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15079 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:44:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from nscfw.iafrica.com (LAv7BkkFDcBTH58+MBTjQt+DLnB+eejF@nscfw.iafrica.com [196.31.1.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15069 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:44:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bradh by nscfw.iafrica.com with smtp (Exim 1.60 #2) id 0wCtLi-0000Vc-00; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:10 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:10 +0200 (SAT) From: Brad Hendrickse To: Joachim Kuebart cc: Pierre Van Leeuwen , questions@freebsd.org, pvl@nanoteq.com Subject: Re: extended dos partitions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Pierre Van Leeuwen wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I've been running 2.2.1R for a few days now, and I still can't get > > it to mount my extended dos partition ( I saved all my home > > dirs there when I wiped 2.1.7R) I can mount the primary > > on wd0s1. I know that the extended partition is on > > wd0s2, because it is reported like that in the fdisk partition > > editor. The label editor doesn't see it though. > > > > mount_msdos gives me this : > > mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s2: invalid argument > > > > -- > check if you have the /dev entry: "ls /dev/wd0*" should list slices one > through something.... > If not, do (as root): > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV wd0s2 > and whatever you want to mount > Actualy, you'd have to do the above, 'cept your extended DOS partitions start at slice 5.. eg: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd0s# Where # would be the slice number starting with 5 for extended DOS partitions. - Brad