*BSD News Article 65164


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting dos extended partitions ?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:31:49 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <31632685.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org>
References: <Dp95o1.50H@uns.bris.ac.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386)
To: Steve Roome <roome@cs.bris.ac.uk>

Steve Roome wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to mount an msdos extended partition with freebsd 2.1.0 ?

Yep.  The DOS extended partitions start at /dev/<drive><unit>s5

So if you had a D and an E partition on SCSI drive 0, the mapping would
be:

D:	/dev/sd0s5
E:	/dev/sd0s6

And you could mount them by saying:  mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /mnt
(and so on).

BTW, your headers are totally hosed and don't let anyone simply "reply"
to you - they've gotta filch the address out of your .signature.  Most
evil, please fix.  Thanks!
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project