On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:51 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:18, Brian Astill wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote: > > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this > > > > > > extended partition ? > > > > > > > > > > The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4 > > > > > primary partitions. > > > > > > > > Typo! should read "can't" , or "cannot have more than three > > > > primary partitions" > > > > > > Not true. In the handbook in section 2.5.2 you will find the > > > following > > > > Which refers to FREEBSD, not DOS. > > It is a DOS logical partition within a DOS extended partition the > > enquirer is trying to mount. > > > > Your information is irrelevant inaccurate and confusing in this > > context. > > The number of primary partitions (slices) was maximum four before I > had even heard of FreeBSD. They correspond to the four slots in the > partition table in the MBR. > > A possible point of confusion is that an extended partition is itself > a primary partition. It is not the extended partion that appears as > slice 5 but a "logical" partition contained within the extended > partition.
Thanks, Malcolm. That is accurate AND helpful. However, have you tried to use 4 standard primary partitions in DOS? In my experience, it doesn't work YMMV. An issue with those limitations is that (I think it is a BIOS variablility problem) some systems using Windos can "see" only the first primary partition in a Primary-Primary-(Extended/Logical)-Primary situation and that it is more sensible to use Primary-(Extended/Logical)-Primary or just Primary-(Extended/Logical). Another issue I have found is that NTFS is easier for WinNT and FBSD to share than any other format. Go figure. -- Regards, Brian _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
