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To: Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au>
Cc: Kermit Tensmeyer <kermit@brite.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: mounting Dos Partition:
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Andrew Johns wrote:
>
> Kermit Tensmeyer wrote:
>
> > I reallocated a portion of my disk [ small partion:boot;]
> > [partion NTFS /dev/wd0s1], [extended dos partition -
> > sysid 5 /dev/wd0s2] and FreeBSD [/dev/ws0s3{a-f}]
> >
> > I tried to mount_msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt but it failed
> > becase the drive is the wrong type.
> >
> > How do I mount an extended dos partition under
> > FreeBSD? I would really like to have a area of the
> > disk where I could read files written by by NT dual
> > boot system.
> >
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> Don't know if this is the same problem, but DOS used to allocate
> extended partitions from slice 5. So my old command to mount my
> extended DOS partition was to use /dev/wd0s5. You may need to make this
> device yourself as I recall having to make mine manually (cd /dev;sh
> MAKEDEV wd0s5) or similar.
>
Also there is a driver for mounting (read-only) NTFS partitions see
http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs
> --
> Regards
> Andrew Johns
> TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd
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