From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 15:54: 0 2002 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 8A31637B401 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94F4543E42 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 13593 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2002 22:46:49 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-74.upnet.gr (HELO hades.hell.gr) (150.140.128.180) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 22:46:49 -0000 Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9HMrwKw034507; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:53:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9HMrkCR034503; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:53:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:53:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems mounting extended partitions and fdisk. Message-ID: <20021017225346.GA34318@hades.hell.gr> References: <20021017160028.C10984@namodn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021017160028.C10984@namodn.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-17 16:00, Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com> wrote: > The device /dev/ad1s4 is an extended partition (as you can see > above), that contains more logical partitions. The problem is I can > mount /dev/ad1s5,6,7 but not 8, (which is the one I need to mount) > the final logical partition on that disk. > In FreeBSD, I try to mount it (first the /usr/local partition > <hda7>, then /home <hda8>). > > su-2.05b# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s7 /mnt/debian/ > su-2.05b# umount /mnt/debian/ > su-2.05b# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s8 /mnt/debian/ > mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1s8: No such file or directory The error message is as clear as it can get :-/ There isn't a special device node for ad1s8 in your /dev. Use MAKEDEV to create it. -- keramida@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #12: Thu Oct 10 21:08:38 EEST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message