Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting extended partions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305233045.24994D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980306020358.367A-100000@myname.my.domain>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Donn Miller wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 5,(Extended DOS)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Extended partitions are mapped to slices beyond 4, so the first logical
disk would be wd1s5 and the next wd1s6 and so forth.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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