From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 21 7:24:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC20837B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530CC43E3B for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:24:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30842 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2002 15:24:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 21 Nov 2002 15:24:28 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gALFOM2D038547; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:24:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <62749.192.168.1.254.1037808645.squirrel@overhill.hddesign.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:24:27 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: David Huttleston Jr Subject: RE: Extended DOS Partition Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Nov-2002 David Huttleston Jr wrote: > The Question: How can we mount a ext3 partition hidden inside > an Extended DOS partition? > > The Story: We just switched a developer workstation from > RedHat8 to FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE (we're now "All FreeBSD" > for our servers and our core dev team. :) We installed > fbsd on a new harddrive, and the old harddrive with the > rh8 system is now the slave on the primary ide controller. > We want to move all of Chris's (the developer) work files > and dot files over to the fbsd drive. In the past this > has been easy by enabling the ext2fs support in the kernel. > The problem is that we can mount the root partition, but the > other ext3 partitions seem to be hidden behind an "Extended > DOS" partition. At least thats what fdisk implies. Extended Partitions should show up as extra slices such as ad0s5, ad0s6, etc. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message