On Sunday 26 November 2006 21:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 26.11.06 20:21, Amit Joshi wrote:
> > I am trying to mount the FreeBSD Partition on my Debian Testing system
> > with the 2.6.17-2 kernel.
> > I tried searching the config file and did not find any reference to UFS
> > or U2FS in that file. So maybe it is not supported by my kernel?
>
> you first need to have FreeBSD partitions support to be able to work with
> them. 

Thanks. How do I get that? :)

> Then, you need UFS filesystem support. Luckily, UFS write support is 
> dangerous for some versions of UFS, but it's safe for FreeBSD's UFS
> (however I'm not sure if that woeks with softupdates...)

Oh..I wasn't aware of this. How about reading / writing from/to Linux 
partitions from FreeBSD?
>
> > Anyways, keeping my fingers crossed. Can anybody tell me how do I go
> > about mounting the partition?
>
> does the kernel report anything about the connected drive and partitions on
> it?

I am not sure what are you trying to ask here. Does the kernel report anything 
about the connected drive?? Umm.no idea! How do I check that?

Well..fdisk -l /dev/hdb says that this hard disk has a partition tagged as 
FreeBSD. 
Does it help?

-- 
Regards, 
Amit.
http://copperskullcprogramming.blogspot.com


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