mount_msdosfs anomaly

[Robert Storey]

On my system I have several Linux distros installed in the extended partition,
and FBSD 5.2 shows slices as high as /dev/ad0s9. I am able to mount all of these
with mount_ext2fs. Whether or not it is possible to mount msdos extended
partitions, I can't say, since I don't have any installed on my hard drive.

regards,
RS

On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:39:23 -0400 (EDT)
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:

> > 
> > Aloha
> > 
> > I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of
> > linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice
> > 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all
> > distros.
> > 
> > When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98 slice with
> > "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /win98" without any trouble.
> > 
> > When I attempt to mount slice 10 with "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s10 /shared" I
> > get the following error:
> > 
> > mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument.
> > 
> > Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I have a text file
> > and two jpeg photos in the slice. 
> > 
> 
> Only 4 primary slices are recognized.   FreeBSD will not talk to a slice 10
> and I don't think anything MS will either in a standard manner.  That is
> why they came up with extended partitions.   What did you use to create the 
> extra slices?
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
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