Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:18:30 +0930 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting extended dos partition Message-ID: <200307072218.30840.bastill@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200307062338.33869.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20030706183640.GA53902@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> <200307071515.12578.bastill@adam.com.au> <200307062338.33869.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended > > > > partition ? > > > > > > The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4 > > > primary partitions. > > > > Typo! should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three > > primary partitions" > > Not true. In the handbook in section 2.5.2 you will find the > following Which refers to FREEBSD, not DOS. It is a DOS logical partition within a DOS extended partition the enquirer is trying to mount. Your information is irrelevant inaccurate and confusing in this context. -- Regards, Brian
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