From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 12:50:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12BED37B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: (qmail 26772 invoked by uid 0); 27 Mar 2001 20:50:44 -0000 Received: from dsl1-160.dynacom.net (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2001 20:50:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3AC0FD24.501224E7@urx.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:50:44 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting an extended dos partition References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I would like to mount my extended dos partitions (d: , e: ). > > > > > > 1) # fdisk > > > tells me > > > > > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* > > > (...) > > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA) > > > start 16338105, size 8193150 (4000 Meg), flag 0 > > > beg: cyl 1017/ sector 1/ head 0; > > > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 > > > > > > 2) In /dev all devices from ad0s4 to > > > ad0s4h are "made" > > > > > > 3) When I do > > > # mount_msdos /dev/ad0s4a /mnt > > > (or any other ad0s4x) I get > > > > > > mount_msdos: /dev/ad0s4a: Invalid argument > > > > > > Which (probably stupid) mistake did I make? > > > > The "d" equal /dev/ad0s5 one. I did a "mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s5 /mnt" and > > it mounted just fine. > > > > Kent > Thanx, you are right. > Consequently I will find my dos e: partition under /dev/ad0s6 . You have the pattern. You just have to remember that 4 primary partions/slices are reserved. So the first extended logical begins at slice 5. Kent > > Uli. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message