From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 14:32:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676FB106564A for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:32:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229938FC19 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFSGf-0007Bq-Nb for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:32:33 +0200 Received: from pool-173-79-85-36.washdc.fios.verizon.net ([173.79.85.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:32:33 +0200 Received: from nightrecon by pool-173-79-85-36.washdc.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:32:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:35:10 -0400 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <490168.63433.qm@web26707.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-79-85-36.washdc.fios.verizon.net Subject: Re: access an extended partition and X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:32:39 -0000 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