Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:00:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bastill@adam.com.au (Brian Astill) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting extended dos partition Message-ID: <200307071400.h67E0oXY017120@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200307071515.12578.bastill@adam.com.au> from "Brian Astill" at Jul 07, 2003 03:15:12 PM
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> > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended > > > partition ? > > > > The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4 primary > > partitions. > > Typo! should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three primary > partitions" > If by 'primary partition' you mean what MS calls partition, and which FreeBSd calls 'slice' then you can have up to 4 of them, named 1-4. These, then can each be divided in to as many as 8 (but really 5 or 6 in practicallity because c and d are excluded and b usually only use for swap) sub-units, which FreeBSD calls partitions named a-h. ////jerry
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