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From: Alexander Plotnikov <alex@gyro.pvrr.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to mount extended DOS partition?
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 05:17:02 +0000
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To: Scott Blachowicz <scott@sabami.seaslug.org>
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Scott Blachowicz wrote:
> 
> > > Extended partitions are numbered from 5.  You should be mounting
> > > sd0s5.
> > In mine system it is really /dev/sd0s2, because it says partition
> > editor.
> 
> Assuming I've got the right words, maybe it is the extended partition
> itself that is sd0s2, but the logical partitions contained within that
> extended partition start numbering at sd0s5.  I don't have any such
> systems right now, but I have had before and I think I had to do something
> like this:
> 
>         cd /dev
>         ./MAKEDEV sd0s5h
> 
> to get all of the partition device files created as well.
> --
> Scott Blachowicz  Ph: 206/283-8802x240   Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
>                                          1700 Westlake Ave N #500
> scott@statsci.com                        Seattle, WA USA   98109
> Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
Thank's a lot! It's works!!!
-- 
---------------------------Alex---------------------
                   Alexander Plotnikov, 
         SysAdm at Privoljskaya Railroad, Russia
	           http://gyro.pvrr.ru
                 mailto:alex@gyro.pvrr.ru