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From: bmk@dtr.com (Brant Katkansky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS extended partition
Date: 3 Oct 1995 09:57:21 -0700
Organization: DTR/net - Portland OR (info@dtr.com)
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Keywords: DOS partition

In article <44n8vd$kaj@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>S.T.Chang-The Night Breed <chang@casper.sns.com.sg> wrote:
>>BSD admin,
>>
>>	Can someone please let me how to mount a DOS logical drives on
>>extended partition under FreeBSD 2.0.5?
>
>mount -t msdos /dev/r<T>d<U>s<S> /dos
>
><T>	type, 'w' for IDE, 's' for SCSI
><U>	unit number, '0' for the first disk of this type
><S>	slice number; 0...3 are the slices in the primary fdisk table,
>	numbers above are extended partitions

Uhhh - J"org (how do you generate umlauts on a US keyboard?) shouldn't
that be the block special device as opposed to the raw device?

e.g 'mount -t msdos /dev/<T>d<U>s<S> /dos'

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