Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:45:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ronny Jordalen <secrj@econ.uib.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdos mount problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919224038.280d-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970918063404.20389@econ.uib.no>
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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Ronny Jordalen wrote: > Forgive this if it's a silly question, but I haven't been able > to find much info about it... > > I can mount msdos partitions with 'mount -t msdos'. The handbook > also claims you can mount extended partitions, but I've been > unable to do so. I have two logical drives defined in that > extended partition, whereas one is type fat32. Can these two > be mounted somehow? Extended partitions are available as the slice numbers above 4, for the first logical disk it's wd0s5 and so forth. Fat32 partitions are not supported at current. > Also, is there support for 'long filenames' as it is under > Windows 95? This is running FreeBSD 2.2.2. Thanks! VFAT long filenames aren't supported yet either. I know of a program called `vmount' that reportedly can mount vfat partitions. Check out http://digo.inf.elte.hu/~szoli. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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