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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:21:45 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: reading a linux drive w/o disklabels?
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, David S. Jackson wrote:

> I've got a drive from a Linux box with partitions I need to read
> before I reformat the drive.  All I have handy is FreeBSD boxes, but
> when I try to read the drive in a freebsd box, it doesn't read or
> recognize the disk slices from Linux.  Any howto's or tips on how to
> handle this?

/usr/ports/sysutils/gpart may be worth a look.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA