Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:43:10 +0200 (SAT) From: Brad Hendrickse <bradh@iafrica.com> To: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Cc: Pierre Van Leeuwen <pvl@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>, questions@freebsd.org, pvl@nanoteq.com Subject: Re: extended dos partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970403224000.1918A-100000@nscfw.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970403194605.229E-100000@shire>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Joachim Kuebart wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Pierre Van Leeuwen wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I've been running 2.2.1R for a few days now, and I still can't get > > it to mount my extended dos partition ( I saved all my home > > dirs there when I wiped 2.1.7R) I can mount the primary > > on wd0s1. I know that the extended partition is on > > wd0s2, because it is reported like that in the fdisk partition > > editor. The label editor doesn't see it though. > > > > mount_msdos gives me this : > > mount_msdos: /dev/wd0s2: invalid argument > > > > -- > check if you have the /dev entry: "ls /dev/wd0*" should list slices one > through something.... > If not, do (as root): > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV wd0s2 > and whatever you want to mount > Actualy, you'd have to do the above, 'cept your extended DOS partitions start at slice 5.. eg: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wd0s# Where # would be the slice number starting with 5 for extended DOS partitions. - Brad
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