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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:33:57 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        David Bein <bein@pyramid.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Solaris 2.7 ufs file systems ...
Message-ID:  <38599305.EB69D41E@softweyr.com>
References:  <945005691/bein@sanity.mass.pyramid.com> <19991216110101.O48955@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> [redirected to -hackers]
> 
> On Sunday, 12 December 1999 at  8:34:51 -0500, David Bein wrote:
> > Hi ...
> >
> >   I have a PC with triple boot partitions setup, one of
> > which is loaded with Solaris 2.7 (officially called version 7).
> > I am wondering if anyone has any experience directly mounting ufs
> > partitions which Solaris created. It should be pretty straight
> > forward to come up with a modified ufs source to read them
> > (much like ext2fs), but of course figuring out where Solaris
> > keeps the partition tables needed to get at the slices within
> > the partition is apparently a military secret. Can anyone
> > offer any advice on how to go about this?
> 
> You'll probably find more interested people on -hackers, so I've
> redirected the message there.

With NetBSD (1.3.3, 1.4, 1.4.1) and Solaris on SPARC hardware, it just
works, so it must not be all that secret.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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