Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 07:59:00 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: David Abdemoulaie <DAcash18@vt.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting extended dos fat32 partitions Message-ID: <37313DB4.AE229F4@uk.radan.com> References: <373101F5.90486DF9@vt.edu>
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David Abdemoulaie wrote:
>
> I seem to be making a home on this list.. I cannot figure out how to
> mount either of my two Extended DOS Fat32 partitions, wd0s2 and wd1s1 .
> I have tried "mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt/DOSD" and "mount -t msdos
> /dev/wd1s1 /mnt/DOSE" in both cases I get the following error-
>
> msdos: /dev/wd0s2: Invalid argument
>
> I have no clue what is going wrong, any help would be greatly
> appreciated
>
Extended FAT (16 & 32) partitions (logical drives in DOS terminology)
*always* start at s5. wd0s2 (in your case) is the extended partition
itself. Although it has a slice number you can't do anything with it
('cept delete it I guess).
# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /mnt/DOSD
will mount the first FAT "logical drive" in the extended partition,
# mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s6 /mnt/DOSE
the second etc.
Note, you may have to make the device nodes:
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV wd0s5
# ./MAKEDEV wd0s6
etc.
HTH
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