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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 23:01:57 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extended Partition access
Message-ID:  <19990525230156.F277@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <199905252146.RAA91615@cs.rpi.edu>; from David E. Cross on Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:46:48PM -0400
References:  <199905252146.RAA91615@cs.rpi.edu>

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On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:46:48PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote:
> Is it possible to gain access to an extended parition under FreeBSD?
> 

Yes. You can't install FreeBSD on them, but you can access FAT and
NTFS "logical drives" in extended partitions. These *always* start
at slice 5, irrespective of the number of slices on your disk. e.g.
/dev/wd0s5 for the first one, /dev/wd0s6 for the second etc.

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