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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:09:05 -0600
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices" 
Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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At 12:01 PM 9/2/98 -0700, Scott Blachowicz wrote:
 
>Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:
>
>> But.... Waitaminnit. If you have an extended DOS partition with some
>> number of logical DOS drives within it, you should REALLY see:
>> 
>> C: wd1s1
>> Extended DOS partition: wd1s2
>>   D: wd1s2a
>>   E: wd1s2b
>>   F: wd1s2c
>> Third partition (FreeBSD, Linux, whatever): wd1s3
>> Fourth partition: wd1s4
>
>Wait a minute...I thought the logical DOS drives within the extended
partition
>corresponded to slices 5 & up....as in...
>
>  C: wd1s1
>  Extended DOS partition: wd1s2
>    D: wd1s5
>    E: wd1s6
>    F: wd1s7
>  Third partition (FreeBSD, Linux, whatever): wd1s3
>  Fourth partition: wd1s4

You see the latter. My point is that this is not logical.

--Brett

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