Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:24:27 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: David Huttleston Jr <dhjr@hddesign.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Extended DOS Partition Message-ID: <XFMail.20021121102427.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <62749.192.168.1.254.1037808645.squirrel@overhill.hddesign.com>
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On 20-Nov-2002 David Huttleston Jr wrote: > The Question: How can we mount a ext3 partition hidden inside > an Extended DOS partition? > > The Story: We just switched a developer workstation from > RedHat8 to FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE (we're now "All FreeBSD" > for our servers and our core dev team. :) We installed > fbsd on a new harddrive, and the old harddrive with the > rh8 system is now the slave on the primary ide controller. > We want to move all of Chris's (the developer) work files > and dot files over to the fbsd drive. In the past this > has been easy by enabling the ext2fs support in the kernel. > The problem is that we can mount the root partition, but the > other ext3 partitions seem to be hidden behind an "Extended > DOS" partition. At least thats what fdisk implies. Extended Partitions should show up as extra slices such as ad0s5, ad0s6, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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