Subject: Re: seeing multiple dos partitions
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/18/2000 16:15:15
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:08:39AM -0500, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> I have a NetBSD-1.4.1 i386 with 2 drives.  wd0 has several (3 or 4)
> dos/win95 partitions and wd1 is all NetBSD.  I was wanting to grab
> something off one of the wd0 partitions without booting win95.  So I did
> disklabel to find out which partition to mount and get:
                                  
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   d: 21095424        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
>                                                                20927)
>   e:  4192902       63      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-
>                                                                4159*)
>   f: 12241530  4192965     unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 4159*-
[...]
> when I mount /dev/wd0e I see that its only the "C:" drive.  
> 
> So how do I get to the others (my stuff is on the "D:" drive)?
The other partitions are (in DOS-terms) "extended partitions", the kernel
doesn't know/care about those.

I haven't used it myself, but from reading its manpage I think
mbrlabel(8) should be able to do what you need.
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