From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 00:37:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07064 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blast.sheep.com (pmc10.rt66.com [204.134.97.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA07058 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from honglu@localhost) by blast.sheep.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id BAA00939; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:44:57 -0600 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:44:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Henry H Lu X-Sender: honglu@blast To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: access to logical/ext partition? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all: I have a linux swap partition I want to share with freebsd. However I do not know howto access it. partition: 1. dos 2. linux 3, extension -> 5 dos, 6 linux swap , 7 linux 4. freebsd I did following: cd /dev; MAKEDEV wd0s3a I got files from wd0s3a to wd0s3h Then I tried to mount dos to test : mount_msdos /dev/wd0s3a /mnt/dos I got all sort of error message. What is wrong? how to setup device file for logical partition? How can I access linux swap ( /dev/hda6 in linux fdisk)? Henry H Lu http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m508/luxxx012/