From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 11:48:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx04.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3BA37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.158.214.244] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with ESMTP id 5952136; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:54:43 -0500 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBBJmMC57739; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:48:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:48:21 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson To: Fernando Gleiser Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount_ext2fs and ext3? Message-ID: <20011211194821.GA12892@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Johnson , Fernando Gleiser , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011211150806.GA899@gforce.johnson.home> <20011211124610.Y93662-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011211124610.Y93662-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > [2] Is the Linux partition on a primary or extended partition? I do > > not think FreeBSD can mount an extended partition. > > No, but that is because an extended partition does not have a > filesystem in it =0). What you can do is mount the filesystem which > are in the logical partitions inside the extended one. > > That is, if in linux the file system is in /dev/hda7, in FreeBSD you > mount /dev/ad0s7. When I wrote extended partition I actually meant the logical partitions contained on the extended partition. I did not realize you could actually mount them under FreeBSD however. For some reason I was under the impression that the Linux partition had to be a primary partition. Thanks for clearing that up. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message