Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:17:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: how do I mount Extended DOS, LBA partition Message-ID: <3920E808.41468176@3-cities.com> References: <20000514225743.8623.qmail@web3104.mail.yahoo.com> <391F3ECE.76559CC0@3-cities.com> <m2puqowr55.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <003201bfbed7$16217240$12c536d4@eidiko4>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > I'd grown used to the tidy informative output of linux fdisk, an > > instant source of the device names required to mount any thing. > > > > Finally I realized I could start /stand/sysinstall/ open the slice > > editor and find the names used for the various partitions, at least > > some of them, these names are conspicuously lacking in fdisk output. > > > > Brings up a question if there is a different fdisk or some other util > > that display device names in use. > > Oh well, if your machine is a dedicated one, just as mine is, > you can always do: > > % disklabel /dev/wd0 > > and have the tidiest output I've ever seen. I tried that on 4.0 and all it shows is my 1st partition. The second partition is a 13GB FreeBSD slice and I can see the partitions in my slice The third partition is a 5GB DOS Extended partition and it would not show that partition. The real problem is the identification of the partitions. I had created a /dev/ad0s6, which mounted just fine using mount_msdos /dev/ad0s6 /mnt. I hadn't done a MAKEDEV on ad0s5 and couldn't mount it. Micke got me to thinking and when I looked in /dev it wasn't there. After I did a ./MAKEDEV ad0s5, I could also mount it using mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s5 /mnt. I have always found it easy to remember because we can have 4 primary partitions. One of those can be an extended with numerous logicals. The logicals always start at 5 (no. of primary + 1). I was trying to install Linux on a machine and had problems. I will probably try it again now that I understand the arrangements a little bit better. I have my extended partition after my FreeBSD slice on one system and in front of it on the other system. The only problem on the one system was getting / under the cylinder 1024 rule. Kent > > Of course, since i don't expect everyone to use their disks in > "dedicated" mode, there are two steps in the process of finding > the labels for a slice. Since there can be many many labels, > and lots of slices, it's probably best to let the user decide which > slice he wants to run disklabel on. Thus, fdisk does not try to > provide you with *all* the possible information, but with the > minimum amount of info that you need in order to decide which > slice you'll run disklabel on, in order to see the rest of the info. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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