From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 1:33:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C17337BE3E for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61198DBE2; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:32:21 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000327.20420400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20000327.20420400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:57:10 +0200 To: Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Accessing FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE filesystems from4.0-STABLE... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:42 PM +0000 2000/3/27, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > However, although I need to access each other's IDE disks read-only > from either slice, I seem to understand that, at this stage, it should > be HARMLESS to access them read write (at least, from 4.0-CURRENT or > -STABLE). > > If any of such operations is NOT safe, I hope somebody will jump in > the discussion and tell us :-) I can't fsck the 3.4-STABLE disk while booted under 4.0-STABLE, nor can I mount it at all. So far as I can tell, all the devices are made correctly, and I can't see anything else that should prevent me from being able to mount the disks for one version of the OS under the other version. Yet it still doesn't work. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message