From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 02:14:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29986 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29923 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA10184; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:14:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Boudro cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie - file mounting In-Reply-To: <35A7D78D.F1ACB153@nmia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Dan Boudro wrote: > I've set up my machine so that FreeBSD is on one disk and Linux is on > another. I can mount my ext2fs (sysid 131) partitions just fine but > unfortunately when I set up my Linux disk I used an Extended DOS > partition (sysid 5) to hold several hdax x=5,6,7 slices. I'm not having > any luck mounting this partion(s). Has anyone done this? My big dos > partition (sysid 6) also mounts ok. Looking through the docs this may > not be supported at all in FreeBSD. It is. The extended partition's logical disks are mapped as extra slice numbers, so if you want the first disk in the exteded partition it's /dev/wd0s5, and so forth. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message