Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:01:34 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Hendriks <markh@lon.imag.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mounting FreeBSD partition in Linux Message-ID: <199912160401.XAA94903@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <99121518213200.00276@mark.imag.net>
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On 15-Dec-99 Mark Hendriks wrote:
> 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).
>>
>> 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.
Ahem..
> man -k ext2fs
mount_ext2fs(8) - mount a ext2fs file system
> man mount_ext2fs
MOUNT_EXT2FS(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual MOUNT_EXT2FS(8)
NAME
mount_ext2fs - mount a ext2fs file system
[ snip ]
HISTORY
The mount_ext2fs function first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
FreeBSD 2.2 January 31, 1996 1
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