Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:59:37 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly Message-ID: <40A37F49.1050209@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <200405131339.i4DDdOl25938@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200405131339.i4DDdOl25938@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Aloha >> >> I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple >> distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd >> on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 >> for data sharing between all distros. >> >> When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98 slice with >> "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /win98" without any trouble. >> >> When I attempt to mount slice 10 with "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s10 >> /shared" I get the following error: >> >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument. >> >> Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I have a >> text file and two jpeg photos in the slice. >> > > > Only 4 primary slices are recognized. FreeBSD will not talk to a > slice 10 and I don't think anything MS will either in a standard > manner. That is why they came up with extended partitions. What > did you use to create the extra slices? > > ////jerry Isn't ad?s5 and up used for the extended partitions? Which devices show up in /dev ? Hendrik
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