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From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting an extended dos partition
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:17:52 +0100
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Xenofon wrote:
>One of my disks (ad0) has two partitions: ad0s0, which
>is an msdos partition, and ad0s1 which is an extended
>dos partition. When i try to mount ad0s1 with 'msdos'
>type, i get a mount_msdos: invalid argument error,
>while mount by itself returns an incorrect superblock
>error. When i run the sysinstall utility to check the
>partitions using the disk label, I can only see ad0s0.
>Any clues?
>Thanks in advance.
>-X
Try ad0s5.  I think that's right for the first extended partition.

HTH
John.


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