Subject: Re: mounting an MSDOS extended partition
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From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/20/2002 00:52:17
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:36:30PM -0600, David J Iannucci wrote:
> Hi --
>    I want to mount an MSDOS (FAT16, I think) partition that is
> *inside* my extended partition area, and can't seem to find out
> how to do this.  I followed the instructions in the documentation
> for mounting an ordinary DOS partition by giving the coordinates
> of the beginning of the extended partition, but that didn't
> work, of course, because the partition in question is not at the
> start of the extended partition area.

The fdisk in 1.6 will report the block numbers for each part
of the extended partition.

mbrlabel will do the same - it the format required by disklabel.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk