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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:28:24 +0100 (CET)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Tadimeti=20Keshav?= <keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can I read FreeBSD partitions from another hard drive?
Message-ID:  <20040322062004.G64737@pukruppa.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040322033854.12632.qmail@web25007.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040322033854.12632.qmail@web25007.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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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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	|    Peter Ulrich Kruppa    |
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