Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 06:31:05 +0000 From: Adam Ford <adam@attack.fordys.net> To: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an MS-DOS partition? - Tricky! Message-ID: <19991021063105.A5778@attack.fordys.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991020221738.00b5f958@mail.embt.com> References: <03f601bf1b43$bfc23d80$0307070a@shannon-s> <3.0.3.32.19991020221738.00b5f958@mail.embt.com>
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Morning folks,
> >>> root@attack>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /windows
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^
> >>Is it really wd0s2? Windows needs to be in the first partition so
> >>I'd expect it to be wd0s1.
> Sorry, that's just not true.
I found a quick way to check make sure I was right before I mailed this
list origionally; (I am no expert on file systems as you might have guessed!) -
I used /stand/sysinstall, this picked it up as /dev/wd0s2 as well, though it
seg faulted every time I actually tried to mount it from within there..
> To the original poster with the problem:
> does /dev/wd0s2 exist?
It does indeedy.
root@attack>ls -l /dev/wd0s2
brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00030002 Oct 20 06:00 /dev/wd0s2
> does /modules/msdos.ko exist?
Seems to..
root@attack>ls -l /modules/msdos.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 53648 Sep 16 22:46 /modules/msdos.ko
> what does 'fdisk wd0' output?
The following.. yes, so I have small drives, dont laugh :) - its not
used for big data, mainly just a walkabout comms laptop that I can use
to handle mail for my domain after I've plugged it in anywhere :)
******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=525 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=525 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 1124865 (549 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 278/ sector 63/ head 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 14,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB, LBA))
start 1124928, size 991872 (484 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 279/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 524/ sector 63/ head 63
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Does this help?
Thanks for your assistance,
Regards,
--
Adam Ford
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