Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:02:35 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@branchmedia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting Linux Partitions in Extended Partitions Message-ID: <20010415210235.A12986@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <987386205.3ada515dd3520@postoffice.dreaming.org>; from mitayai@branchmedia.com on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:56:45PM -0400 References: <987386205.3ada515dd3520@postoffice.dreaming.org>
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:56:45PM -0400, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > Hello! > > I have a machine here that has a SCSI disk that used to have Linux > installed on it. > > When i check fdisk, it appears that there are two partitions, 1 with > 23M that seems to have the boot stuff and kernel, and then one with > several Gigs with the actual data (i booted into Linux to make sure, > everything looks fine). > > In FreeBSD, when i look at fdisk, the first partition is labelled as > ext2fs and the second partition is labelled as DOS extended. I can > mount the first one fine with mount_ext2fs, but i can't figure out if, > or how, i can mount the larger one. > > Does anyone have any insight? Use the slice number equal to the partition number in linux. For instace, if Linux saw the disk as sdb6, use da1s6 in FreeBSD. This will work just fine. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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