Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:14:27 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems mounting extended DOS partition Message-ID: <35075313.1FCD9BD5@dal.net> References: <2248.889663439@N2.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
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[ I received this question, thought others would be interested in the answer.] > Ok, I'm curious. Why is the extended DOS partition slice 5? And > why does sysinstall tell me that the partition is known as wd0s3 > if I need to refer to it as /dev/wd0s5? To sysinstall, the whole slice is wd0s3 since the only thing the partition labeller is interested in is the "primary" partitions, since those are the only slices it can install into. The way DOS handles partitions, one of the 4 available primary partitions is converted to what's known as an extended partition, and the logical partitions are divided up within the extended partition. So, wd0s3 is the extended partition, and wd0s5 is the first logical partition within it. They are not the same thing. Hope this helps, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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