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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What partition sysid is OK for extended DOS partition mount? Date: 15 Jul 1997 21:00:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5qgoct$970@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33CB7138.267F@jetform.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44493 Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@jetform.com> wrote: > Notice that the partition type flag for my extended partition is not > recognised by fdisk. Is it maybe not being recognised by the slice > code or the msdos filesystem? This partition was created by Win95 > OSR2's fdisk. I formatted it as a vanilla FAT16. We also recently noticed that Winlose 95 % started to use Sysid #14. Ain't it fun? They always invent something new. > I used fdisk -u to change the partition ID to 5 (Extended DOS) and > rebooted, and all of a sudden I can mount the /dev/wd0s5 okay. Talk to Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>, so he could make sysid 15 an acceptable alternate for the fdisk extension pointer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)