what about to add support for extended disks/partiton?

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Wed Nov 24 12:33:20 PST 2004


On Wednesday, 24. November 2004 19:30, crash wrote:
> fdisk says partion 4 extednded ntfs on ad0
> but when i do mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s4 /mnt/ntfs it says invalif argument.
>
> but i can mount my windows partion that is partion 1 so it is ad0s1 but the
> windows partion is a primary.

i figure you don't want to mount the extended slice itself but a slice 
*inside* of that extended one. these start with slice number 5, i.e. the 
first is ad0s5. this information is also printed on startup

cheers
  simon

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