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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: NetBSD filesystem compatibility
To: randy@zyzzyva.com (Randy Terbush)
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 18:32:43 -0700 (MST)
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> Is it safe to assume that a NetBSD filesystem is ufs mountable from
> a FreeBSD system. I'm about to find this out within the hour, but
> would appreciate a "heads-up" if anyone has anything to share.

Yes.

Going the other way, you would have to explicitly change the
label on the FreeBSD swap partition to "swap" for NetBSD to
recognize it.  The on disk structures are the same as for
4.4BSD-Lite in both trees.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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