Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:51:58 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting extended dos partition Message-ID: <200307072351.58818.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200307072218.30840.bastill@adam.com.au> References: <20030706183640.GA53902@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> <200307062338.33869.kstewart@owt.com> <200307072218.30840.bastill@adam.com.au>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:18, Brian Astill wrote: > 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= =2E The number of primary partitions (slices) was maximum four before I had=20 even heard of FreeBSD. They correspond to the four slots in the partition table in the MBR. A possible point of confusion is that an extended partition is itself a=20 primary partition. It is not the extended partion that appears as slice 5 but a "logical" partition contained within the extended partition. Malcolm
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