From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 23:33:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29979 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29845 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25365; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:31:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Donn Miller cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting extended partions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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