Re: can I read FreeBSD partitions from another hard drive?
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa (root_at_pukruppa.de)
Date: 03/22/04
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:28:24 +0100 (CET) To: Tadimeti Keshav <keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk>
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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