Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:44:41 -0400 (EDT) From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: kil@access.MVC.net (Kirill Ilukhin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extended DOS partition Message-ID: <199609172344.TAA12086@elmer.ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199609141900.XAA09823@mpool.MVC.net> from "Kirill Ilukhin" at Sep 14, 96 11:00:09 pm
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| Could you tell me how to mount extended MS-DOS partition under FreeBSD
|2.1.0-RELEASE.
The handbook mentions the command-line method for doing this (see:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook19.html
but basically extended DOS partitions are mapped starting at slice 5. So,
to mount off the first extended partition of the first drive on the first
IDE controller (wd0):
mkdir /d
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s5 /d
I don't these devices exist by default with a new install, so you might
have to make them. As root:
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV wd0s5
sh MAKEDEV wd1s5
For SCSI instead of IDE, replace wd with sd. Here are some fstab entries
that might help:
/dev/wd0s1 /c msdos rw,-m777 0 0
/dev/wd1s1 /d msdos rw,-m777 0 0
/dev/wd0s5 /e msdos rw,-m777 0 0
/dev/wd1s5 /f msdos rw,-m777 0 0
I've never had any trouble with writing to my DOS partitions from
FreeBSD, but I understand that some folks have. If this is a concern,
mount with the -ro option. For the fstab entries, replace rw with ro and
change 777 to 555.
Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com
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