Subject: Re: mount_msdos...
To: None <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Ken Nakata <nakata@sequent.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/13/1999 10:03:17
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:41:56 -0500, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.991012172955.17345B-100000@bitter.mit.edu>, mcmahill@
> mtl.mit.edu writes:
> >mount -t msdos /dev/whatever /dos
> 
> Yup.  That's what I'm trying.
> 
> So, as an example, here's my fdisk output and disklabel output.  Should I be
> using a different offset for the disklabel partition than for the fdisk
> partition?  I got the same result trying to use the fdisk table 1 entry.
> 
> 
> >>#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
> >>  a:    98280  1436400     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1520 - 1623)
> >>  b:   393120  1534680       swap                        # (Cyl. 1624 - 2039)
> >>  c:  8149680  1436400     unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 1520 - 10143)
> >>  d:  1436338       63      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*- 1520*)
> >>  e:  1842750  1927800     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 2040 - 3989)
> >>  f:   307125  3770550     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 3990 - 4314)
> >>  g:  3686445  4077675     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 4315 - 8215)
> >>  h:  1821960  7764120     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 8216 - 10143)
> 

So you are doing "mount -t msdos /dev/wd0d /mnt"?  Well, I thought the 
'd' partitions on i386 are the raw disk partitions...  I can't confirm 
or disconfirm but I have a feeling that you get the raw disk with the
'd' partition no matter what disklabel you place...

Ken