From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 24 01:23:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13692 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 01:23:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13677 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 01:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA22092; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:21:59 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00201; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 10:21:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA10182; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:59:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601240859.JAA10182@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: extended DOS partitions <-> /dev/???? To: freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:59:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601232220.RAA02886@hopf.math.purdue.edu> from "Clarence Wilkerson" at Jan 23, 96 05:20:09 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Clarence Wilkerson wrote: > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 86 86 1023 472752 5 Extended > /dev/hda3 * 4 4 85 41328 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > /dev/hda4 1 1 3 1480+ a OS/2 Boot Manager > /dev/hda5 86 86 1023 472720+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > > What is the FreeBSD name for this region of the disk? Better let Bruce answer this... :) Assuming that it's the first entry in the fdisk table of the extended slice, it's /dev/*wd0s5*. Slices 1 trough 4 (*wd0s1* ... *wd0s4*) are reserved for the primary fdisk table. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)