From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 18:49:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD04837B719 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 85169 invoked by uid 100); 4 Mar 2001 02:49:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15009.44352.445974.119293@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:49:36 -0600 To: "Xavier O'Neill" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting fat partitions problem In-Reply-To: <106207072@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Xavier O'Neill types: > I have 2 20 GB diisks. You also seem to be confused about disk partitions. Then again - FreeBSD chose to keep historic unix usage, and not historic DOS usage, so it's confusing when you first encounter it. > Primary disk first partition win98 install > Primary disk second partition fat32 whcih i could is set up as an extended / > logical drive In FreeBSD parlance, these are "slices", not partitions. DOS partitions are called slices. What Unix has historically called partitions are still called partitions. A FreeBSD slice has multiple partitions inside of it (and we'll ignore DD disks), and those are what you put file systems (or swap) on, and mount. > Scond disk first partition freebsd (/) > Second disk second partition /usr > Second third partition swap > Second 4th partition fat32 Give the above, this doesn't make a lot of sense. If you could sort out which are slices and which are partitions, it would help. Better yet, the output of fdisk for both drives and the output of mount after you've got what works mounted would help. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message