Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Rubens Ramos <rubens_ramos@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/27269: Cannot mount linux extended (logical) partitions Message-ID: <200105142330.f4ENU2I31164@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/27269; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Rubens Ramos <rubens_ramos@yahoo.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27269: Cannot mount linux extended (logical) partitions Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:20:28 -0700 (PDT) I will totally agree with you if you could point me to some place in the handbook/FAQ/any BSD docs that explain this to the average user (or at least how to fix it). The Linux+FreeBSD Howto only says: "It is not possible to mount extended linux partitions under FreeBSD". It looks like a FreeBSD bug to me... It is very difficult for someone that does not know exactly what "partition" means to figure that out - if it is an inconsistency in linux, I think that the handbook/FAQ/whatever, should have an explanation about that. (Because if this is a problem in Linux, it is unlikely that it is going to be explained in linux documentation ;-) Maybe some people on newsgroups had the same problem, and were told (as I was) that it should work with no problems at all, and just could not solve it. Then they just end up re-partitioning their disks and for some reason it works "by magic" (they use a different partition ID). Cheers --- Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Rubens Ramos wrote: > > --- Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 May 2001, Rubens Ramos wrote: > > > > What happens if you try > > > > > > > > fdisk /dev/ad0 > > > > > > > > DOes it give you the extended linux partition > > > > code? (0x85 - sysid 133) > > > > Maybe it works for you because you are using > > > > DOS extended partitions (or Win98). > > > > They work pretty much the same way... > > > > > > Ah, now I see what you were getting at with > your > > > patch. Yeah, FreeBSD > > > most certainly doesn't know what to do with > linux > > > extended partitions. > > > To tell the truth, this is the first time I've > seen > > > somebody use them. > > This misfeature has been in Linux since at least > linux-2.0.29.tar.gz > (Feb 21 1997). Using it mainly hides the Linux > partitions from other > OS's and older OS's that don't know about it. This > is not something > you should do when you want to mount Linux > partitions in other OS's. > > Bruce > ===== ---- Rubens Ramos Fernandes Junior rubens_ramos@yahoo.com ---- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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