From: Hal N. Brooks (hal@pollux)
Date: 04/15/93


From: hal@pollux (Hal N. Brooks)
Subject: Re: Mounting an extended dos partition
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 23:16:07 GMT

In article <1993Apr14.135119.4022@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld) writes:
>My Dos disk is partitioned into two parts, a primary partion (C disk)
>and an extended partition, with one logical partition (D disk).
>There is no problem to mount the C disk with the command
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /usr/dos
>
>but the similar command
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /usr/ddisk

As I understand it, the device name for the first logical partition
would be /dev/hda5, hda1 through hda4 refer to primary partitions.

See the Linux Device list.

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