From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 3:46:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F5B37B6A2 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:46:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12aGw0-000F1L-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:46:52 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12aGw0-0008jt-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:46:52 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:46:52 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Timshel Knoll Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ix86/DOS extended partition support ... Message-ID: <20000329124652.B96553@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000329155222.A3700@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000329155222.A3700@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Timshel Knoll wrote: > I'm a linux user/developer interested in the xBSD OSes, and I'm wondering if > there is any plan to add support for DOS extended/logical partitions to FreeBSD. > I believe that this would be a worthwhile venture, as there are many reasons > that people would want to access extended logical partitions from FreeBSD. I think it's already supported - try accessing slices 5-8, i.e. mount_msdos /dev/ad0s5 /foo or whatever. Or am I misunderstanding what you mean? Slices 5-8 represent partitions within a DOS extended partition, which I think is what you're talking about. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message