Subject: Re: mounting extended linux partitions
To: Wayne Cuddy <wcuddy@crb-web.com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/06/2002 09:24:53
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:02:26AM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> 
> You are correct, this is a pain in the ass!  I have many applications open on
> the Linux side right now, so I cannot produce the netbsd fdisk output at the
> moment.  So would I just assign the linux partitions to wd0X where X is the 1st
> unused letter.  What type should I specify for FSType?

Have you looked at mbrlabel(8) yet?  It should locate these extended
partitions for you automatically.

From looking at disklabel(5) I think you want "Linux Ext2" for the partition
type.

-Andrew