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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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