Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 14:59:18 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: randy@zyzzyva.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD filesystem compatibility Message-ID: <199605020502.WAA15041@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199605020132.SAA10930@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 1, 96 06:32:43 pm
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said: > > > 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. Unless something has changed since 2.1R in this area, fsck will not like the partition information used by NetBSD. To stay on the safe side, I try to only mount the NetBSD partitions read-only and never read-write, if at all possible. darren
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