Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:35:10 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: access an extended partition and Message-ID: <ipbtpm$2mr$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <490168.63433.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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sofiane chabane wrote: > Good morning, > I have installed FreeBSD in a multiboot way on my PC but till now I can't > access my extended partition. Indeed, on my PC I have 4 primary partitions > that I organized like this: > > > Primary partition 1 : WinRE of windows vista > > Primary partition 2 : windows Vista > > Primary partition 3 : FreeBSD > > Primary partition 4 that is the extended one contains: > > Logical partition 1 : windows XP > > Logical partition 2 : a Gnu/Linux distribution > > Logical partition 3 : Data > > So, the problem is that I can't access the extended partion especially the > Data one. This is my first problem. > > The second one is this: > I'd like to change my profil picture (on my logging screen-I'm using KDE) > and put my personal photo for example; I have tried but kdbm inducates > that it 's impossible to do it. These are the problems I've encountered, > so I hope I were concise. Thank you very much for being so kind and help > me to solve these problems. > The so-called Dos 'Extended Partition' begins numbering with ad(x)s5. It's been so long since I dealt with this. Partitions 'c' is a special designation and 'b' usually is reserved for swap. But a wild guess would be that your logical partition 1 (windows XP) would be ad(x)s5a, [substitute drive number for (x)] - the next would be ad(x)s5d, and ad(x)s5e (maybe your 'Data' one?). You can manually use the mount command to test mount to somewhere like /mnt before trying to hardcode into fstab, if indeed you even wish to do so. -Mike
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