Subject: Re: FAT32=msdos?
To: Andrew Steven Ball <kb9ylw@cyberspace.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/18/2001 14:02:07
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:17:42PM -0500, Andrew Steven Ball wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Should...
> 
>   mount -t msdos /dev/foo /mnt/bar
> 
> ...work for a FAT32 file system in an extended partition?

Yes, if you've got the correct offsets in the disklabel for the FAT32
partition.

mbrlabel in NetBSD-current should help you.

mbrlabel in NetBSD 1.5 will cause you grief, so don't use it.

fdisk in NetBSD-current might help, but there's a known bug in
perusing more than one level of extended partitions (which I should
fix in the next day or so)

fdisk in NetBSD 1.5 won't help you much in determining the actual
offsets of the logical partitions inside an extended partion.