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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to mount a 700MB MSDOS extended partition?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:20:35 -0800
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To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> I'm not sure FreeBSD does extended DOS partitions right now. I faintly
> remember an issue there (memory is dim...)

It supports them fine - they're mapped after the last physical
partition, e.g. /dev/sd0s5, /dev/sd0s6 and so on.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project