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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@hopf.math.purdue.edu
Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions in -current 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 07:17:13 +1100."
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:45:13 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Of course, the errors still shouldn't reboot the machine.  :-)

					Jordan

> >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