Can't mount ad0s2 - sourced

[Brian Astill]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:42 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:

> > > > > Sure there is [a solution]. Show us what fdisk and disklabel
> > > > > say.
> >
> > referring to my being unable to access ad0s2 from FBSD.
> > The drive is partitioned DOS-DOS-FBSD.
> > If I set up the partitions Primary1-Primary2-Primary3, WinNT
> > "hides" Primary2, and I have to "unhide" using Partition Magic
> > every time I boot into that hateful OS.  However, I CAN acess
> > Primary2 from FBSD. 
> > However, If I set up the partitions
> > Primary1-Logical1-Primary2, WinNT is happy, but Logical1 cannot be
> > mounted by FBSD.
>
> Never had occassion to use this but:-
> It's my understanding that so called logical partitions/slices are
> available to FreeBSD as slice 5, 6 ...
> Thus you should be able to mount the elusive partition as ad0s5.

Agreed.  Sorry, been there, done that. Doesn't work if I use 
Primary/Logical/Primary. /dev/ad0s5 exists.

 #mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/edrive
doesn't work, either,  if I use Primary/Logical/Primary.  /dev/ad0s2 
does exist.

<thinks> I wonder what would happen if I tried to mount ad0s2a?
<tests> Neither ad0s2a not ad0s2e succeed :-(
Keeps saying "invalid argument" - /dev/ad0s2a and e both exist, so does 
/mnt/edrive.
So I'm stuck.

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Regards,
Brian