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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
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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