From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 00:48:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17085 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:48:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050ndd.san.rr.com (root@dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17080 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:48:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dougdougdougdoug@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050ndd.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02013; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <34FFB7F3.57D7AEBA@san.rr.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 00:46:43 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0303 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donn Miller CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting extended partions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. There is extensive commentary on this in the search pages on the www site. As I recall, the first extended partition is always s5, with succeeding partitions being 6, 7, etc. So in your example, try /dev/wd1s5. Good luck, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message