Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:04:02 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msdosfs can't mount Extended partition. Any ideas? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106121955410.59085-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010612120822.B56159@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > 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). Logical drives within extended partitions start at slice 5. These slices are not created by default by MAKEDEV. devfs should create them in -current. I'm not sure if it creates them before they are looked at using stat() or open(). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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