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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!sun4nl!news.eur.encompass.com!Kijfhoek.NL.net!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: How to mount a 700MB MSDOS extended partition? Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <E18JDM.13p@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <01bbd542$3ccc4b40$3e28d690@steve.cityu.edu.hk> <56vtvd$1pi@anorak.coverform.lan> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:27:22 GMT Lines: 19 brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: >In article <01bbd542$3ccc4b40$3e28d690@steve.cityu.edu.hk>, > "Steve" <eebawa@cityu.edu.hk> writes: >: Hi, >: >: Anyone knows how to mount a 700MB MSDOS extended partition in FreeBSD? >: Thanks in advance. >mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1 /mnt >where the 's' means SCSI - 'w' for IDE, the 0 is the disk number and the >1 is the physical partition number. partitions 5-8 can be used to >represent extended drives in a logical dos partition. I'm not sure FreeBSD does extended DOS partitions right now. I faintly remember an issue there (memory is dim...) Wilko