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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:00:39 -0400
From: "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net>
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Subject: reading a linux drive w/o disklabels?
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Hi,

I've got a drive from a Linux box with partitions I need to read
before I reformat the drive.  All I have handy is FreeBSD boxes, but
when I try to read the drive in a freebsd box, it doesn't read or
recognize the disk slices from Linux.  Any howto's or tips on how to
handle this?

TIA!


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