From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 18:23:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FA737B698 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f112L9i11566; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:21:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <017c01c08bf6$d2c38ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Edwin chan" , "Mark Yeck" Cc: References: <014a01c08bf3$4f790960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <000d01c08bf3$8bec3200$5801a8c0@suntop.com> Subject: Re: can freebsd mount Novell volume ? Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:29:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, you're right. I assumed that mount_nwfs was like all other mount_xxx commands which can mount the filesystems from local disks. Shame on me :) -- Matt > I am not sure if mount_nwfs can mount novell volume on local disk, man page > seem to said that mount_nwfs just use to mount novell volume through > network, in that situation, freebsd just use as a novell client. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Matthew Emmerton > To: Mark Yeck ; Edwin chan > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:04 AM > Subject: Re: can freebsd mount Novell volume ? > > > > > On 01-Feb-01 Edwin chan wrote: > > > > no, my novell server have 2 disks, and the disk that sys volume on > have > > some > > > > problem, so server can't start up. I want mount my data disk on > freebsd > > and > > > > backup all data from it without install another novell server. > > > > > > ah. i understand now. > > > unfortunately, i dont know how to do that. > > > > Couldn't you take the disk out of the Novell server, stick it in a FreeBSD > > machine, and then do a 'mount_nwfs' to mount the Novell drive, and then > back > > it up? > > > > -- > > Matt Emmerton > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message