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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.aut.alcatel.at!atusc75!ladavac From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS extended partition problem Date: 14 Sep 1995 14:32:20 GMT Organization: Alcatel Austria AG Lines: 28 Message-ID: <439edk$5oc@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> References: <438c1l$4mn@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: atusc75.aut.alcatel.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Kevin Hendrix (hendrix@beauty1.phy.olemiss.edu) wrote: : I'm trying to mount a DOS extended partition in FreeBSD 2.0.5 and : can't seem to get it to work. Here's my setup: : /dev/sd0s1 - Primary DOS partition : /dev/sd0s2 - Extended DOS partition : /dev/sd0s3b - FreeBSD swap : /dev/sd1s1a - FreeBSD / : /dev/sd1s2b - FreeBSD secondary swap : /dev/sd1s3c - FreeBSD /usr : I can mount /dev/sd0s1 into FreeBSD with no problems, but mounting : /dev/sd0s2 ALWAYS generates an error message about an "invalid : argument". Extended partition is a container, just like e.g. /dev/sd0. It contains other partitions, in DOS parlance logical volumes. These are, in your case, /dev/sd0s5, /dev/sd0s6, etc. Try mounting one of those. /Alby : I've tried both mount and mount_msdos commands, the target BSD : directory does exist. : Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. : thanks, : kevin : hendrix@beauty1.phy.olemiss.edu