[buug] mounting big ide fat32 partitions

[Mark Hedges]

Hey thanks and sorry for the noise.  I figured I'd ask the
locals.  All the options from the handbook seemed exhausted and
I couldn't find anything in other list archives or newsgroups.

The funny thing is, the last time I rebooted, the msdos C drive
mounted fine through /etc/fstab and I could see every single file.
Wacky.

There isn't much of a user group in Santa Cruz from a preliminary
search.  Maybe I'll pop in at one of your cafe meetings someday.

Happy Geeking.

--mark--

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Brian Sobolak wrote:

> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:28:44 -0800
> From: Brian Sobolak <sobolak at myrealbox.com>
> To: Mark Hedges <hedges at ucsd.edu>, buug at weak.org
> Subject: Re: [buug] mounting big ide fat32 partitions
>
> On 3/23/02 4:09 PM, "Mark Hedges" <hedges at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Howdy, Geeks, from Santa Cruz.
> >
>
> Umm, Santa Cruz?  Ahem.
>
>
> > With grub I run Windows2000 on drive 0 and FreeBSD on drive 1.
> > These are big IDE drives (20G and 60G) with multiple big
> > partitions.
> >
> > When I boot FreeBSD on drive 1, I want to mount at least one of
> > my partitions from drive 0.
> >
> > PROBLEM 1:
> >
> > mount -t msdos or an msdos type entry in /etc/fstab both mount
> > the first partition successfully (drive "C:") using /dev/ad0s1.
> > However, it has problems - not all files and directories appear.
> >
> > PROBLEM 2:
> >
> > I cannot mount the second partition (drive "E:").  I even tried
> > `sh MAKEDEV /dev/ad0s5` to create a device for the extended
> > partition, but it still did not work.
> >
> > Anyone have experience mounting big FAT32 partitions like this?
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Mark -
>
> Perhaps someone can help you, but you're more likely to get better results
> if you try questions at freebsd.org - a lot of FreeBSD gurus hang out there.
> You're certainly going to have better luck than mailing the _Berkeley_ Unix
> Users Group.
>
>
> Also, you should check out the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook
> and see if has any suggestions about mounting big FAT partitions (boy, that
> has a nice ring to it, no?)
>
> Warning:  BSD people insist on using the term "slice" for what many other
> people call a partition.  So if you post to questions at freebsd.org, expect
> that someone is going to give you the "in FreeBSD they're called slices"
> lecture.  You can impress them in advance with your abilities if you mention
> the word slice in advance.
>
> HTH,
>
> brian
>
>
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