From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 22:45:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08656 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08646 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA00703; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:45:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Ronny Jordalen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdos mount problems In-Reply-To: <19970918063404.20389@econ.uib.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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