From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 16 14:12:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B6A37B423 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([12.72.203.153]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010416211207.KNI4080.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@hotmail.com> for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:12:07 +0000 Message-ID: <3ADB6021.57F680B7@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:12:01 -0700 From: walt Organization: none X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: How to mount DOS/Linux 'extended' partitons. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With help from Chris & Ashley I just figured this out-- thanks to both of you. The man page for devfs definitely does not make this clear, BTW: 'Primary' DOS partitons (aka slices) are numbered 1 thru 4, even if you don't actually use them all. 'Extended' DOS partitions can be accessed in FBSD (as in Linux) starting with numbers 5 and above, e.g. /dev/ad0s5, ad0s6... depending on the number of extended partitions you create on your hard disk. With the new devfs kernel these partitions are not visible in /dev *until* you mount them with, e.g., mount_msdos /dev/ad0s6 /mnt or mount_ext2fs /dev/ad0s5 /mnt But there is no clue that these 'devices' exist until you actually mount them. I hope this may save some time for other newbies migrating from the Linux world. Next question: is it possible to create 4.2BSD filesystems on these 'extended' partitions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message