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Subject: Re: Accessing FAT32 logical partition
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Wow, I just love this kind of clear explainations.

Cheers Martin

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> hi martin,
> the way you are mounting your logical partition i
> assume is wrong, as that you have to supply the slice
> number on your disk....
> 
> if FreeBSD and the C: Partition are primary, and D: is
> logical, i.e. under and extended partition,
> 
> D: should be /dev/ad0s3, or 4.  The rule is... you
> cannot just simply say ad0 to mount and it will
> complete your request because you havent supplied
> which partition you want to mount, i.e ad0 is the
> whole disk.
> 
> Also... logical partitions, are same as any other
> partitions (mounting wise), as i am telling you this
> because i have 4 logical partitions, and 4 primary.
> 
> so... an example mount command would be...
> 
> mount -tmsdos /dev/ad0s3 /tmp
> 
> Thats should solve the problem.. ah! and if you can't
> find the mount number as in s<x>, than just type 
> 
> ls /dev/ | grep ad0s
> 
> and it will show you all the entries...
> 
> thanks...
> 
> =====
> regards,
> Hiten Pandya
> <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
> <http://geocities.com/hitmaster2k>
> 
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> PENGUIN!!!
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