From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 12:26:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17952 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.seanet.com (dns2.seanet.com [199.181.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17944 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@two.sabami.seaslug.org) Received: from two.sabami.seaslug.org (sab.seanet.com [199.181.166.94]) by mx.seanet.com (8.8.8/Seanet-8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA29725; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from two.sabami.seaslug.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by two.sabami.seaslug.org (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA21131; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809021901.MAA21131@two.sabami.seaslug.org> To: Brett Glass cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSDOS extended partitions and "slices" References: <199808021131.FAA12204@lariat.lariat.org> <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> In-reply-to: <199808080608.AAA16222@lariat.lariat.org> From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: sab@seanet.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <21128.904762914.1@two.sabami.seaslug.org> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 12:01:55 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass wrote: > But.... Waitaminnit. If you have an extended DOS partition with some > number of logical DOS drives within it, you should REALLY see: > > C: wd1s1 > Extended DOS partition: wd1s2 > D: wd1s2a > E: wd1s2b > F: wd1s2c > Third partition (FreeBSD, Linux, whatever): wd1s3 > Fourth partition: wd1s4 Wait a minute...I thought the logical DOS drives within the extended partition corresponded to slices 5 & up....as in... C: wd1s1 Extended DOS partition: wd1s2 D: wd1s5 E: wd1s6 F: wd1s7 Third partition (FreeBSD, Linux, whatever): wd1s3 Fourth partition: wd1s4 I thought you had to go do cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd1s5h ./MAKEDEV wd1s6h ./MAKEDEV wd1s7h to get the /dev files made them, too. [Disclaimer...I missed the first part of this thread and I'm way behind in my mailing list reading and I haven't had a need to mess with logical partitions from a FreeBSD point of view for a while so reality may vary...but I'm pretty sure that I've done the above at some point in the past couple years...] Scott Blachowicz sab@seanet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message