[lists] Extended msdos partition

[Remo Lacho]

On 2/27/2005 at 12:41 AM Jan Sebosik wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was user of NetBSD (and a bit of slackware linux) before I moved to 
>Free one (becouse I wanted nvidia 3D acc).
>I have 80GB disk sliced (partitioned) into smaller pieces. Slice scheme 
>is like that :
>
>slice1: 7GB FFS (FreeBSD :)
>slice2: Extended Partition which contains:
>          slice1 in "slice2" : 60GB fat32
>          slice2 in "slice2" : Extended Partition (and in this 
>"extneded" slice is another 3GB fat32 slice)
>                      slice1 inside slice2 of slice2: 3gb Fat32
>
>This partiton scheme created Pastiton Magik 8.
>
>My question: How to mount the 60 GB fat32 part. ?
>I know about disklabel, and fdisk. But in FreeBSD it works somehow 
>unpredictable.
>
>I`ve klkload-ed msdosfs module, tried disklabel on /dev/ad0s2 (which 
>damaged my partition table), but it still something about that it cannot 
>mount partition (yeh, mount point e.g. /mnt/c exists :-\ ). Is freebsd 
>so different against Linux, or NetBSD?
>
>thanks,
>Jan Sebosik
>_______________________________________________

Try "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s5 /[mount_point]".

Or perhaps "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s6 /[mount_point]".

Good luck!

--
Remo