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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:22:18 +0000
From:      colin cowlan <colincowlan@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   cant read ufs disks created on x86
Message-ID:  <c7bdc144050324022265cdd170@mail.gmail.com>

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I'm realtively new to freebsd and also recentlky aquired an alpha
xp1000. its up and running after a bit of trouble with aboot.

my problem is now that i have 2 data disks both created with ufs on a
freebsd x86 box that i want to move to the alpha. One has a lot of
data i want to keep and the other is empty.

with both of them imunable to see the paritions when i use bsdlabel
thru /stand/sysintall and if i try to create a newfs with bsdlabel i
get a coredump.

i then used the guidelines in the handbook to make a new newfs and that worked

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2
# disklabel /dev/ad2 | disklabel -B -R -r ad2 /dev/stdin
# newfs /dev/ad2c

i still had the problem of all the data on the x86 created disk, so i
just tried to mount it

sushi# dmesg | grep ad3
ad3: 117800MB <HDS722512VLAT80/V33OA60A> [239340/16/63] at ata4-slave UDMA33

sushi# mount /dev/ad3 /data3
mount: /dev/ad3 on /data3: incorrect super block

sushi# file -s /dev/ad3
/dev/ad3: x86 boot sector

im just worried that i cant move an x86 created ufs disk too & from
the alpha, if i recreate the disk on the alpha & transfer the data via
network and the alpha dies will i be stuck with an unreadble disk ?



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