From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 09:46:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA05187 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from delos.stuttgart.netsurf.de (delos.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.163.56.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05175 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by delos.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Smail3.1.29.1/delos.LF.net) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services from shire with smtp for freefall.freebsd.org id m0wCqZD-0000TqC; Thu, 3 Apr 97 19:44 WET DST Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:49:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart X-Sender: joki@shire Reply-To: Joachim Kuebart To: Pierre Van Leeuwen cc: questions@freebsd.org, pvl@nanoteq.com Subject: Re: extended dos partitions In-Reply-To: <199704031053.MAA12388@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Pierre Van Leeuwen wrote: > Hi > > I've been running 2.2.1R for a few days now, and I still can't get > it to mount my extended dos partition ( I saved all my home > dirs there when I wiped 2.1.7R) I can mount the primary > on wd0s1. I know that the extended partition is on > wd0s2, because it is reported like that in the fdisk partition > editor. The label editor doesn't see it though. > > mount_msdos gives me this : > mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s2: invalid argument > > -- check if you have the /dev entry: "ls /dev/wd0*" should list slices one through something.... If not, do (as root): cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd0s2 and whatever you want to mount hope this helps c u Jo