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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:31:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mounting extended partions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305233045.24994D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980306020358.367A-100000@myname.my.domain>

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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Donn Miller wrote:

> 
> About mounting msdos partions:  can you mount dos extended partitions?
> I'm using freebsd-current.  I tried to mount them, and I get:
> 
> mount_msdos: /dev/wd1s1: Invalid argument.  Here is the output from 
> fdisk /dev/wd1:
> 
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 5,(Extended DOS)  
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Extended partitions are mapped to slices beyond 4, so the first logical
disk would be wd1s5 and the next wd1s6 and so forth.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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