From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 23:14:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23214 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:14:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23118 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from myname.my.domain (client201-122-8.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.8]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with SMTP id CAA25977 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:13:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:12:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Donn Miller X-Sender: dmm125@myname.my.domain To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mounting extended partions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG About mounting msdos partions: can you mount dos extended partitions? I'm using freebsd-current. I tried to mount them, and I get: mount_msdos: /dev/wd1s1: Invalid argument. Here is the output from fdisk /dev/wd1: ******* Working on device /dev/wd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=785 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=785 heads=128 sectors/track=63 (8064 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 5,(Extended DOS) start 8064, size 6314112 (3083 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 783/ sector 63/ head 127 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: In actuality, disk wd1 has two extended partitions; one d: (2 meg) and e: (1 meg) but as you can see above fdisk is showing just one 3 meg extended dos partition. It's also showing partitions 3 & 4, which is confusing since they don't exist. Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message