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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:25:27 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: msdosfs can't mount Extended partition. Any ideas?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106121520540.57647-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010612013412.D49698@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:

> I just found that msdosfs can't mount legal Extended partition because
> required info is few blocks later in that case, not immediately as for
> Primary partition. Is it known problem, or I am first who notice
> that? Does anybody have some fix for that?

Extended partititons aren't mountable (even under DOS/Windows), since they
are just containers for logical drives (and further extended partitions).
Just mount the logical drive (slice) that you want.

Bruce


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