From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 11:31:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D0616A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:31:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.demax.sk (mail.demax.sk [213.215.102.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE9E43D1F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:31:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sebosik@demax.sk) Received: from mail.demax.sk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nod32.demax.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8CA42ACF for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:31:29 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanner: This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus system NOD32 for Linux Mail Server. For more information on NOD32 Antivirus System, please, visit our website: http://www.nod32.com/. Received: from [195.62.17.204] (2D204.demax.sk [195.62.17.204]) by mail.demax.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E00642ACB for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:31:29 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4221AF90.3020300@demax.sk> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:31:28 +0100 From: Jan Sebosik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 MultiZilla/1.7.0.2b X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [lists] Re: Extended msdos partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:31:31 -0000 Hi, So, after yesterday I`ve succesfully solved the problem with: mount -t msdos /dev/ad1sX /mnt/X (x >= 5) thank you 4 your help, Jan Sebosik Remo Lacho wrote: > On 2/27/2005 at 2:40 AM Jan Sebosik wrote: > > >>Hi >> >>When I disklabel -r /dev/ad1s2 (the first extended slice), i get : a: >>135186912 62 MSDOS c: etc # don`t delete this line.... >>mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s2a /mnt/c --> no such file or device (yeah, >>I`ve now looked into /dev/, and it really doesn`t exist in.... but don`t >>know why it is so) >>mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s2 /mnt/c --> invalid argument >> >>fdisk /dev/ad1s2 : >> part1: start 63 size 135186912 (66008MB) type XY >> part2: start 135186975 size 8209215 (4000MB) <- this is 2.nd >>extended partition I mentioned in prev. msg >> >>It`s still unclear to me, why disklabel doesnt create a /dev/ad1s2a.... >> >>tnx >>Jan Sebosik >> >> > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > If you get no joy from my previous reply forget about disklabel. > > Unlike with OpenBSD, with FreeBSD you do not have to write a disklabel to be > able to mount an MSDOS slice (primary or extended). > > If you were mounting an extended partition under Linux you would mount > /dev/hdx5 or /dev/hdx6 and so on. > > With FreeBSD extended partitions start at /dev/[s/a]dxs5. > > Good luck again! > > -- > Remo > >