Re: Reading BSD fs in Linux box

2002-10-05 Thread Alan E Derhaag
Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Alan, Downsizing has taken it toll in my company and now I've got the job of recovering the files from a couple of projects off a couple of drives a co-worker was using on a FreeBSD OS box. With all the other filesystems addressed

Re: Reading BSD fs in Linux box

2002-10-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Alan, mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/sdb[5-8] /mnt/BSD meaning, for each of the entries under the extended partition entry each rendering the generic and not too helpful message: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda[5-8], or too many mounted file

Re: Reading BSD fs in Linux box

2002-10-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Alan, mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/sdb[5-8] /mnt/BSD Partition check: sdb: sdb1 sdb1: sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 Iirc you have to mount the whole slice at once. The subpartitions are then recognized. In your case that would be mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/sdb1

Reading BSD fs in Linux box

2002-10-04 Thread Alan E Derhaag
Downsizing has taken it toll in my company and now I've got the job of recovering the files from a couple of projects off a couple of drives a co-worker was using on a FreeBSD OS box. With all the other filesystems addressed by kernel modules, I was sure I'd be able to scan the drive. Now I'm

Re: Reading BSD fs in Linux box

2002-10-04 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Alan, Downsizing has taken it toll in my company and now I've got the job of recovering the files from a couple of projects off a couple of drives a co-worker was using on a FreeBSD OS box. With all the other filesystems addressed by kernel modules, I was sure I'd be able to scan the