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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/27269: Cannot mount linux extended (logical) partitions
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The following reply was made to PR kern/27269; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Rubens Ramos <rubens_ramos@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/27269: Cannot mount linux extended (logical) partitions
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:04:33 +1000 (EST)

 On Sun, 13 May 2001, Rubens Ramos wrote:
 >  --- Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> wrote:
 >  > On Sat, 12 May 2001, Rubens Ramos wrote:
 >  > > What happens if you try
 >  > >
 >  > > fdisk /dev/ad0
 >  > >
 >  > > DOes it give you the extended linux partition
 >  > > code? (0x85 - sysid 133)
 >  > > Maybe it works for you because you are using
 >  > > DOS extended partitions (or Win98).
 >  > > They work pretty much the same way...
 >  > 
 >  > Ah, now I see what you were getting at with your
 >  > patch.  Yeah, FreeBSD
 >  > most certainly doesn't know what to do with linux
 >  > extended partitions.
 >  > To tell the truth, this is the first time I've seen
 >  > somebody use them.
 
 This misfeature has been in Linux since at least linux-2.0.29.tar.gz
 (Feb 21 1997).  Using it mainly hides the Linux partitions from other
 OS's and older OS's that don't know about it.  This is not something
 you should do when you want to mount Linux partitions in other OS's.
 
 Bruce
 

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