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Date:      Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:15:12 +0930
From:      Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting extended dos partition
Message-ID:  <200307071515.12578.bastill@adam.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200307061251.40856.kstewart@owt.com>
References:  <20030706183640.GA53902@marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk> <200307061251.40856.kstewart@owt.com>

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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote:

> > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended
> > partition ?
>
> The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4 primary
> partitions.

Typo!  should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three primary 
partitions"

Note that there is often some weirdness mounting windos partitions from 
un*x.  My FBSD4.8 can't access a windos logical/extended partition, 
though in that condition windos is happy, but can access that same 
partition as primary, though windos then hides the partition(and I have 
to manually un-hide it).
On another system, an extended partition is inaccessible as dos, but is 
seen fine by both winNT and Un*x as NTFS. 
Weird.

-- 
Regards,
Brian



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