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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:24:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Huttleston Jr <dhjr@hddesign.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Extended DOS Partition
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021121102427.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <62749.192.168.1.254.1037808645.squirrel@overhill.hddesign.com>

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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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