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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:57:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Emil Mikulic <emikulic@dmr.ath.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't see OpenBSD's slices
Message-ID:  <20050203205144.C47315@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050203094355.GA4767@dmr.ath.cx>
References:  <20050203094355.GA4767@dmr.ath.cx>

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Emil Mikulic wrote:

> ad1 is a hard-drive taken from an OpenBSD machine that had / and swap
> and /tmp and /var and /usr on it (at least).  The machine it's now in is
> running FreeBSD 6-CURRENT and it only sees one slice:
>
> $ ls /dev/ad1*
> /dev/ad1   /dev/ad1s4
>
> I can mount this without any issues and it turns out to be the old root
> filesystem.  Is there any way to get at the other filesystems on that
> disk?

I assume the OpenBSD machine was i386 and not sparc.

Well you rattled off 5 partitions so its not MBR-based.  We probably
doesn't understand OpenBSD disklabels.  If we don't understand the
disklabel then we can't find the filesystems.

Do you have a partition map from OpenBSD to compare with?

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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