Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:48:21 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount_ext2fs and ext3? Message-ID: <20011211194821.GA12892@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <20011211124610.Y93662-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> References: <20011211150806.GA899@gforce.johnson.home> <20011211124610.Y93662-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > [2] Is the Linux partition on a primary or extended partition? I do > > not think FreeBSD can mount an extended partition. > > No, but that is because an extended partition does not have a > filesystem in it =0). What you can do is mount the filesystem which > are in the logical partitions inside the extended one. > > That is, if in linux the file system is in /dev/hda7, in FreeBSD you > mount /dev/ad0s7. When I wrote extended partition I actually meant the logical partitions contained on the extended partition. I did not realize you could actually mount them under FreeBSD however. For some reason I was under the impression that the Linux partition had to be a primary partition. Thanks for clearing that up. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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