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From: roy@mbfys.kun.nl (Roy Glasius)
Subject: FBSD2.0-disklabel and ext.dos partition?
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 08:46:10 GMT
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Hi,

On my second harddisk I have a primary and an extended
dos partition. Using fdisk in dos6.2 there seems no room to be
left. FBSD however manage to find an extra 494 sectors.
Is this unoccupied part mend for a possible MBR?

Using sysinstall, the help-pages tells that my msdos-only disk
can be visible from FBSD by making a 3th (FBSD) slice.
The only way to do this is using the above mentioned 494 sectors.
After using (F)disk to write a MBR on that part, I used (D)isklabel
trying to make my dos partition visible.
The Primary dos partition gave no problems and could be mounted
on /dos/c.
However the problems are with my extended dos partition.
Disklabel does not recognize it as "MSDOS" but as "unused"
and no mountpoint could be assigned to it.
Could someone explain me how to do this properly?

Thanks in advance!

|| Roy Glasius, Department Medical Physics and Biophysics,
|| University of Nijmegen,Geert Grooteplein Noord 21,6525 EZ Nijmegen,
|| The Netherlands,+31-80615040,roy@mbfys.kun.nl,http://www.mbfys.kun.nl
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