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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!psgrain!rainrgnews0!not-for-mail From: bmk@dtr.com (Brant Katkansky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS extended partition Date: 3 Oct 1995 09:57:21 -0700 Organization: DTR/net - Portland OR (info@dtr.com) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <44rq1h$ut@everest.dtr.com> References: <44js6n$3e3@raffles.technet.sg> <44n8vd$kaj@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dtr.rain.com Keywords: DOS partition In article <44n8vd$kaj@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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 Uhhh - J"org (how do you generate umlauts on a US keyboard?) shouldn't that be the block special device as opposed to the raw device? e.g 'mount -t msdos /dev/<T>d<U>s<S> /dos' -- The Internet is full. Go away.