Mounting extended dos partition

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 07 July 2003 05:48 am, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote:
> > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > > > > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended
> > > > > partition ?
> > > >
> > > > The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4
> > > > primary partitions.
> > >
> > > Typo!  should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three
> > > primary partitions"
> >
> > Not true. In the handbook in section 2.5.2 you will find the
> > following
>
> Which refers to FREEBSD, not DOS.
> It is a DOS logical partition within a DOS extended partition the
> enquirer is trying to mount.
>
> Your information is irrelevant inaccurate and confusing in this context.

Well, mine works. For example,

coral# cd /dos
coral# mkdir f
coral# mkdir g
coral# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s5 /dos/f
coral# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s6 /dos/g

A df shows

/dev/ad0s5    6144830 3412718  2732112    56%    /dos/f
/dev/ad0s6    6144830 5251974   892856    85%    /dos/g

These 2 logical partitions are both ntfs; however, if they were fat, I would 
have used mount_msdos.

The extended partition for XP is the second with FreeeBSD installed in the 3rd 
primary. 

/dev/ad0s3a    248047   62258   165946    27%    /

Kent

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Richland, WA

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