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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:22:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mounting an extended dos partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103272219020.654-100000@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <3AC0F494.5A803C24@urx.com>

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Kent Stewart wrote:

>
>
> Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I would like to mount my extended dos partitions (d: , e: ).
> >
> > 1)      # fdisk
> >    tells me
> >
> >         ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
> >         (...)
> >         The data for partition 4 is:
> >         sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA)
> >         start 16338105, size 8193150 (4000 Meg), flag 0
> >                 beg: cyl 1017/ sector 1/ head 0;
> >                 end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
> >
> > 2) In   /dev    all devices from        ad0s4 to
> >    ad0s4h       are "made"
> >
> > 3) When I do
> >         # mount_msdos /dev/ad0s4a /mnt
> >    (or any other ad0s4x) I get
> >
> > mount_msdos: /dev/ad0s4a: Invalid argument
> >
> > Which (probably stupid) mistake did I make?
>
> The "d" equal /dev/ad0s5 one. I did a "mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s5 /mnt" and
> it mounted just fine.
>
> Kent
Thanx, you are right.
Consequently I will find my dos e: partition under /dev/ad0s6 .

Uli.




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