From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 05:10:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F1B16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C246A43D2D for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBJDBnDH040962; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:11:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBJDBmuC040961; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:11:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ei.bzerk.org: bulk set sender to mail25@bzerk.org using -f Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:11:48 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Peter Leftwich Message-ID: <20031219131148.GA40808@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD LIST , SDBUG References: <20031219004318.W18755@rocket.alienwebshop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031219004318.W18755@rocket.alienwebshop.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: SDBUG cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:10:05 -0000 On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:48:40AM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: > I thought I would GIVE BACK to the BSD community and share my breakthrough: > > Here is how to mount your freebsd partition from Linux (in my case, it was > a CD-R of the Debian-based bootable known as Knoppix available from > www.knoppix.net). As long as your Linux environment can "see" the > partition, such as /mnt/hda2 (for example), you first > > $ umount /mnt/hda2 > $ mkdir /mnt/freebsdpartition > $ mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda2 /mnt/freebsdpartition > > The only thing I could not figure out was how to "su" my currently-running > X session. That would allow me to use KDE and Konqueror to browse > graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how? Not needed. try: mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd,uid=knoppix /dev/hda2 /mnt/freebsdpartition (that is, if your X session is running as user "knoppix".) > Happy holidays everyone, and happy reading-of-the-manpages!! :0) > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder, Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > http://Www.Video2Video.Com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"