Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:08:22 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdosfs can't mount Extended partition. Any ideas? Message-ID: <20010612120822.B56159@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106121520540.57647-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:25:27PM %2B1000 References: <20010612013412.D49698@nagual.pp.ru> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106121520540.57647-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 15:25:27 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > I just found that msdosfs can't mount legal Extended partition because > > required info is few blocks later in that case, not immediately as for > > Primary partition. Is it known problem, or I am first who notice > > that? Does anybody have some fix for that? > > Extended partititons aren't mountable (even under DOS/Windows), since they > are just containers for logical drives (and further extended partitions). > Just mount the logical drive (slice) that you want. Where is such slice then? I have ad0s1 for FreeBSD, ad0s2 for Primary and ad0s3 for Extended container of logical drive. Real fat32 code started in ad0s3 a bit later, but I don't have a device name to mount it (or I miss something). -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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