Subject: Re: seeing multiple dos partitions
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From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/18/2000 14:26:57
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Thilo Manske wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:08:39AM -0500, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> > I have a NetBSD-1.4.1 i386 with 2 drives.  wd0 has several (3 or 4)
> > dos/win95 partitions and wd1 is all NetBSD.  I was wanting to grab
> > something off one of the wd0 partitions without booting win95.  So I did
> > disklabel to find out which partition to mount and get:
>                                   
> > 8 partitions:
> > #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
> >   d: 21095424        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
> >                                                                20927)
> >   e:  4192902       63      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-
> >                                                                4159*)
> >   f: 12241530  4192965     unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 4159*-
> [...]
> > when I mount /dev/wd0e I see that its only the "C:" drive.  
> > 
> > So how do I get to the others (my stuff is on the "D:" drive)?
> The other partitions are (in DOS-terms) "extended partitions", the kernel
> doesn't know/care about those.



> I haven't used it myself, but from reading its manpage I think
> mbrlabel(8) should be able to do what you need.

yes, that did exactly what I wanted.  Thanks

-Dan