[nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, matt black wrote:

> Thanks Peter for the response, indeed I may have to fire up debug2fs,
> although that seems like it will take more time than we thought we were
> in for here. Plus we would like to be able to use the machine and not
> just pull the data down.
> 
> As it turns out, the problem is the file system, which seems to be some
> sort of ufs. I say seems, because all
> 
> file - < /dev/wd0s4
> 
> is "x86 boot sector, BSD disklabel"
> 
> We were able to sort-of mount it using ufs but we need to know which ufs
> to mount without errors? Not taking any chances here on accidentally
> destroying the fs until we can determine exactly which one it is.
> 
> We're still intent on mounting this thing -w however, so if anyone can
> tell us how to determine the exact file system, that might put us
> closer.  Thoughts?
don't bother trying mounting it rw on linux. use fbsd or whatever it was 
originally created on.

-alex