Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:28:24 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tadimeti=20Keshav?= <keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can I read FreeBSD partitions from another hard drive? Message-ID: <20040322062004.G64737@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20040322033854.12632.qmail@web25007.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20040322033854.12632.qmail@web25007.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Tadimeti Keshav wrote:
> Hi, I installed FreeBSD on a hard disk with 2 slices.
> One is an NTFS(slice 1) and the other for FreeBSD
> (slice 2). Is it possible to view FreeBSD partitions
> within the second slice from another FreeBSD
> installation that I have?
Generally: Yes.
All you have to know is the correct device name - for example
/dev/ad0s2e , then you can mount it with
# mount /dev/ad0s2e /mnt
But there is one exception:
ufs2 partitions created with FreeBSD 5.X can't be read from
within FreeBSD 4.X (which only understands ufs).
Regards,
Uli.
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