Problems when mount a windows partition

Brian Somers brian at Awfulhak.org
Sat Jul 15 02:20:55 BST 2000


> Hi, the problem is when i mount example: mount_msdos /dev/ad3s1 /mnt/hd1
> works fine, but i do ls /mnt/hd1 and print likes ????????? all dir.
> Can anybody help me?
> I have Freebsd 4

Needless to say, this shouldn't happen.  The only possible reason that 
springs to mind is that perhaps DOS partition 1 on disk 4 is an 
extended partition ?

If it *is* an extended partition, you'll need to mount /dev/ad3s5 or 
higher - extended partitions start at imaginary DOS partition 5.

> Sorry my poor english.
> 
> Regards.

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