Mounting the second NTFS partition

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Sun Feb 8 22:28:21 PST 2004


On Sunday 08 February 2004 10:16 pm, Robert Golovniov wrote:
> Hello FreeBSD,
>
>   Could  anybody  help  me  in  the matter of mounting the second
> NTFS partition? It works OK with the first one (primary, ad0s1), but
> when I try running mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s2 (should be a secondary
> partition and  this  is  the  name I found in /dev...), I get an
> error that an argument is invalid. Any ideas?

It depends on how you created it. XP and W2K understand 4-primary 
partitions. So, you have ad0s1 and ad0s2 and etc. If you created as a 
logical in your extended partition, the numbering starts at ad0s5.

Kent

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