From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 16 17:41:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A22215348 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:41:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id RAA17989; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:32:37 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA00770; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:32:37 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA29227; Thu, 16 Dec 99 17:32:34 PST Message-Id: <38599305.EB69D41E@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:33:57 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: David Bein , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Solaris 2.7 ufs file systems ... References: <945005691/bein@sanity.mass.pyramid.com> <19991216110101.O48955@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message