From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 18 21:30: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68F037B416 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA30482; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:20:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:20:25 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Ignacio Rey Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing logical/extended partitions In-Reply-To: <20011219000856.A255@softhome.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Ignacio Rey wrote: > My hard drive looks more or less like this: >=20 > Partition 1:=09dos/win98 > =09 2:=09Linux / > =09 3:=09FreeBSD slice > =09 4:=09Extended > =09 5:=09Linux swap > =09 6:=09Linux /home >=20 > Maybe I need to get used to device naming under FreeBSD =3D). I'm trying = to > mount the Linux /home partition, in order to read my personal files under > FreeBSD. I tried this command: >=20 > =09mount=A0-t=A0ext2fs=A0/dev/=E3d0s4b=A0/mnt >=20 > and I got this error: >=20 > =09ext2fs:=A0vfslo=E3d(ext2fs):=A0No=A0such=A0file=A0or=A0director=FD >=20 > I checked and the device file exists, so this error got me confused. >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >=20 Logical partitions within an extended partition are numbered in FreeBSD from s5 on; your Linux /home might be s5 or s6.=20 But you also need EXT2FS in the kernel, or you need to have a loadable kernel module in /modules for that purpose. I think there's a port that will install a loadable kernel mod but I'm not sure about this. =09Annelise --=20 Annelise Anderson Author of: =09=09 FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from:=09 BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/=09 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message