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On Sep 27, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

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> FC <kei-29ij@myamail.com> writes:
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>> I am switching from NetBSD to FreeBSD and I have to get some data
>> from a disk labeled on NetBSD 2.0. I would like to mount this disk on
>> my new FreeBSD-5.4. But the only devices which shows on /dev are ad1
>> and ad1s1. The devices for each partitions are missing (ad1s1a,
>> ad1s1b, ad1s1b, ...) In the good old days I was using MAKEDEV but
>> that doesn't exist anymore on 5.4
>>
>> Thanks for helping me switch...
>>
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> What does fdisk show for that disk?

fdisk show that disk containing a NetBSD partition and bsdlabel show  
no slices. It's like if the disk was not labeled.

I thing FreeBSD gets confused because NetBSD 2.x can have up to 16  
slices and FreeBSD only 8

-fred-