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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:24:59 -0700 (MST)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
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Subject: Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?
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On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote:

...
> That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer 
> (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an 
> invalid HFS type.
>
> So try a few other things
> eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt
> mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument
> eco# mount_msdosfs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad4p2: Invalid argument
> eco# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt
> mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument
>
> Any ideas?

file -s /dev/ad4p2 may be able to identify it.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA