[lists] Re: Extended msdos partition

[Jan Sebosik]

Hi,

So, after yesterday I`ve succesfully solved the problem with:
mount -t msdos /dev/ad1sX /mnt/X  (x >= 5)

thank you 4 your help,

Jan Sebosik



Remo Lacho wrote:
> On 2/27/2005 at 2:40 AM Jan Sebosik wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>When I disklabel -r /dev/ad1s2 (the first extended slice), i get :    a: 
>>135186912    62    MSDOS    c: etc # don`t delete this line....
>>mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s2a /mnt/c   -->  no such file or device (yeah, 
>>I`ve now looked into /dev/, and it really doesn`t exist in.... but don`t 
>>know why it is so)
>>mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s2 /mnt/c  --> invalid argument
>>
>>fdisk /dev/ad1s2 :
>> part1: start 63 size 135186912 (66008MB) type XY
>> part2: start 135186975  size 8209215 (4000MB)  <- this is 2.nd 
>>extended partition I mentioned in prev. msg
>>
>>It`s still unclear to me, why disklabel doesnt create a /dev/ad1s2a....
>>
>>tnx
>>Jan Sebosik
>>
>>
> 
> 
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> 
> If you get no joy from my previous reply forget about disklabel.
> 
> Unlike with OpenBSD, with FreeBSD you do not have to write a disklabel to be
> able to mount an MSDOS slice (primary or extended).
> 
> If you were mounting an extended partition under Linux you would mount
> /dev/hdx5 or /dev/hdx6 and so on.
> 
> With FreeBSD extended partitions start at /dev/[s/a]dxs5.
> 
> Good luck again!
> 
> --
> Remo
> 
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