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From: j@werner.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS extended partition problem
Date: 15 Sep 1995 12:08:20 +0200
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Kevin Hendrix <hendrix@beauty1.phy.olemiss.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to mount a DOS extended partition in FreeBSD 2.0.5 and
>can't seem to get it to work. Here's my setup:
> /dev/sd0s1 - Primary DOS partition
> /dev/sd0s2 - Extended DOS partition
...
>
>I can mount /dev/sd0s1 into FreeBSD with no problems, but mounting
>/dev/sd0s2 ALWAYS generates an error message about an "invalid
>argument".
I think you cannot direclty mount an extended partition, since it's
only pointing to a second-level partition table that contains the
actual extended partition. (But i could easily be wrong here, i don't
have any MSDOG partition in my reach, just guessing.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)