Logical dos drive in extended partition

John Murphy jfm at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Aug 27 17:52:09 BST 2002


"Jon Schneider" <jon at axismilton.ltd.uk> wrote:

>> The extended partition(s) should show as ad0s5, ad0s6, ad0s7, ad0s8.
>
>Aha. This was the snippet of information I needed and all is now fine. Tha=
nks Mark.
>
>But I can't find this piece of information in any of the handbook, the fdi=
sk manual page,=20
>ad manual page.
>
>The nearest thing I can find is http://users.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ntfs_ins=
tall_3.1.html .
>
>Can I suggest the documentation is fixed.

There is a small mention in the FAQ where they are referred to as
"secondary DOS partitions" here:
http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-DOS

which would seem to cover it.
--=20
John.




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