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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS extended partition
Date: 2 Oct 1995 00:41:33 +0100
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S.T.Chang-The Night Breed <chang@casper.sns.com.sg> wrote:
>BSD admin,
>
>	Can someone please let me how to mount a DOS logical drives on
>extended partition under FreeBSD 2.0.5?

mount -t msdos /dev/r<T>d<U>s<S> /dos

<T>	type, 'w' for IDE, 's' for SCSI
<U>	unit number, '0' for the first disk of this type
<S>	slice number; 0...3 are the slices in the primary fdisk table,
	numbers above are extended partitions
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)