From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 15 15:40:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe25.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.148.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8D2315602 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hpk104@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 75848 invoked by uid 65534); 15 Dec 1999 23:40:42 -0000 Message-ID: <19991215234042.75847.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [146.186.228.160] From: "Harris Kauffman" To: Cc: , Subject: Re: Mounting FreeBSD partition in Linux Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:41:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01BF472B.FB05F260" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01BF472B.FB05F260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FreeBSD supports ext2fs, or at least 3.3 does. You need to add=20 options "EXT2FS" to the kernel, and then use=20 mount_ext2fs /dev/driveslice /mnt/linux or=20 mount -t ext2fs /dev/driveslice /mnt/linux to mount the drive >On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >> -On [19991215 12:25], Mauricio Westendorff Pegoraro (mwp@pucrs.br) = wrote: >> >Hi there. >> > >> >Would anyone out there tell me how mount a FreeBSD partition in a = Linux >> >(RedHat) and vice-versa? Both systems are in the same >> >machine (obsviously). >>=20 >> Does Linux support something like mount_ffs or mount_ufs of BSD-type >> slices/partitions? > Linux calls it ffs, so: > >mount -t ffs /dev/hdaX /mnt/FreeBSD >where hdaX is the partition where freeBSD resides. > >or add the line: >/dev/hdaX /mnt/FreeBSD ffs defaults >in your /etc/fstab file to mount FreeBSD at boot time. > >Read more about in 'man mount' or 'man fstab'. FreeBSD does not = currently >support ext2fs (Linux filesystem) at this time. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01BF472B.FB05F260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
FreeBSD supports ext2fs, or at least 3.3 does.  You need to = add
 
options "EXT2FS"
 
to the kernel, and then use
 
mount_ext2fs /dev/driveslice /mnt/linux
or
mount -t ext2fs /dev/driveslice /mnt/linux
 
to mount the drive
 
>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>> -On [19991215 12:25], Mauricio Westendorff Pegoraro = (mwp@pucrs.br)=20 wrote:
>> >Hi there.
>> >
>> >Would anyone out there tell me how mount a FreeBSD = partition=20 in a Linux
>> >(RedHat) and vice-versa? Both systems are in the = same
>> >machine (obsviously).
>>
>> Does Linux support something like mount_ffs or mount_ufs = of=20 BSD-type
>> slices/partitions?
>
Linux calls it ffs, so:
>
>mount -t ffs /dev/hdaX /mnt/FreeBSD
>where hdaX is the partition where freeBSD = resides.
>
>or add the line:
>/dev/hdaX       /mnt/FreeBSD    ffs &nbs= p;   defaults
>in your /etc/fstab file to mount FreeBSD at boot = time.
>
>Read more about in 'man mount' or 'man fstab'.  FreeBSD = does not=20 currently
>support ext2fs (Linux filesystem) at this=20 time.

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