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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.uni.net.za!csir.uni.net.za!wits.uni.net.za!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.stealth.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!129.115.10.31!naiad.utsa.edu!uthscsa.edu!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: extended dos partitions Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 20:39:52 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3345D798.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <31b7cd$10922.6d@NEWS> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: groenie@nowhere.here??? Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38569 P. van Leeuwen wrote: > > Hi > I have just finished upgrading my 2.1.7 system to 2.2.1 > and now I can't seem to mount my extended dos partition anymore. > I mounted the primary one ( /dev/wd0s1) but when I try to mount > wd0s2 ( which I know is the extended one), I get : That's impossible. :-) The extended partitions are mounted at the end of "primary partition" space (that being wd0s1-wd0s4) and have been for as long as I can recall. You sure this wasn't a primary partition? You should be able to find a secondary at wd0s5 (if you have the appropriate entries in /dev of course - do a (cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV wd0s5a) first). -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.