From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 3 20:22:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A76916A41F for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:22:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@usol.com) Received: from smtp.usol.com (smtp.usol.com [64.18.225.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB22743D46 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:22:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@usol.com) Received: from 01-160.143.popsite.net (01-160.143.popsite.net [66.248.81.160]) by smtp.usol.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j83KM0d7024426 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:22:01 -0400 From: Eric Buchanan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 13:21:49 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1787977.LRmHHz3oaL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509031321.53722.freebsd@usol.com> Subject: How to mount OpenBSD slices under 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:22:04 -0000 --nextPart1787977.LRmHHz3oaL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello All, I have 5-Stable and 4-Stable both on my desktop. On 4.x, I can easily mount= =20 OpenBSD slices with no hassle at all. How do I do this on 5.x? devfs doesn'= t=20 create the slices (ad6s3a and ad6s3e) but I can symlink /dev/ad6s3=20 to /dev/ad6s3a and mount the slice that way, with no problems. That won't=20 work for ad6s3e, in fact, doing so mounts ad6s3a! Any ideas? I'd like to=20 mount both from FreeBSD 5.x, since that is what I mainly use. I do this to= =20 copy my own files from one operating system to another, and for backups. Can I use mknod to make ad6s3e? I've tried, but to no avail. I created the OpenBSD slices and partitions by turning an unused FreeBSD=20 partition into an OpenBSD one around the time of FreeBSD 4.3, and noticed t= he=20 slices were mountable under 4.x with no problems at all. If worst comes to= =20 worst, I'll just boot FreeBSD 4.x to mount OpenBSD from FreeBSD. TIA, Eric Buchanan --nextPart1787977.LRmHHz3oaL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDGgXh8dQkF1HzQsoRAh5jAJ4/4NudRxmjGBZ1TCFeMZFdpETmQgCdERie oSmgbEmKYyor7gJ1+dk+2SU= =N+Vd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1787977.LRmHHz3oaL--