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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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