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Date:      Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:53:46 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems mounting extended partitions and fdisk.
Message-ID:  <20021017225346.GA34318@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20021017160028.C10984@namodn.com>
References:  <20021017160028.C10984@namodn.com>

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On 2002-10-17 16:00, Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com> wrote:
> The device /dev/ad1s4 is an extended partition (as you can see
> above), that contains more logical partitions. The problem is I can
> mount /dev/ad1s5,6,7 but not 8, (which is the one I need to mount)
> the final logical partition on that disk.

> In FreeBSD, I try to mount it (first the /usr/local partition
> <hda7>, then /home <hda8>).
>
> su-2.05b# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s7 /mnt/debian/
> su-2.05b# umount /mnt/debian/
> su-2.05b# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s8 /mnt/debian/
> mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1s8: No such file or directory

The error message is as clear as it can get :-/
There isn't a special device node for ad1s8 in your /dev.
Use MAKEDEV to create it.

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keramida@FreeBSD.org       FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #12: Thu Oct 10 21:08:38 EEST 2002

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