From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 12 1: 8:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD2137B403 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 01:08:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5C88ML56281; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:08:22 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:08:22 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdosfs can't mount Extended partition. Any ideas? Message-ID: <20010612120822.B56159@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010612013412.D49698@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bde@zeta.org.au on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:25:27PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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