Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:09:05 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: sab@seanet.com Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices" Message-ID: <199809022113.PAA00535@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199809021901.MAA21131@two.sabami.seaslug.org> References: <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> <199808021131.FAA12204@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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