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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu
Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions in -current
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>What support if any is there supposed to be for MSDOS fs in extended
>partitions? On my -current, mount_msdos /dev/(some-extented-msdos-part)
>reboots the machine.

It's supposed to work the same as for an primary partition:

    mount -t msdos /dev/slice-containing-msdos-file-system /mountpoint

where the slice is one of s5-s30 (never a raw extended partition, er slice,
s1-s4).

Bruce