From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 07:02:23 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 7B59116A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 07:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A20F543D54 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 07:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i4DE2Au26036; Thu, 13 May 2004 10:02:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200405131402.i4DE2Au26036@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Hendrik Hasenbein) Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:02:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <40A37F49.1050209@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> from "Hendrik Hasenbein" at May 13, 2004 03:59:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com cc: Jerry McAllister 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 14:02:23 -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 ? Well, I have never messed with MS extended "partitions" so I don't really know much details. My /dev only goes up to s4 for either ad or da. But, I am not surprised if mount_msdosfs thinks /dev/ad0s10 is not valid. I suppose the person could try creating those devices in /dev and see what falls down (or if it works). ////jerr > > Hendrik >