From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 06:52:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1F816A4CF for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 06:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.4.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF2443D2F for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 06:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de by mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.26 (built Mar 31 2004)) id <0HXN00301NHD46@mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> (original mail from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:52:03 +0200 (MEST) Received: from techfak.uni-bielefeld.de ([129.70.78.49]) by mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.26 (built Mar 31 2004)) with ESMTPPS id <0HXN001IONUPVL@mail2.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>; Thu, 13 May 2004 15:52:02 +0200 (MEST) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:59:37 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein In-reply-to: <200405131339.i4DDdOl25938@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: Jerry McAllister Message-id: <40A37F49.1050209@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040405) References: <200405131339.i4DDdOl25938@clunix.cl.msu.edu> cc: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:52:04 -0000 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