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

[matt black]

Thanks Alex for the excellent advice.

One quick question, when you say don't bother, do you mean bc its such a 
pain or that we will blow the fs away?

Asking this because we finally (before reading your email) got it mounted 
(-o ufstype=44bsd) and it looks like one small wirte operation could give us 
a working system. If that single write operation would instead destroy the 
fs, well, we wouldn't want to do that.

We're so close, and would value your input on whether or not to do this, 
instead of heading back to the start line.

with appreciation,

matty




>From: alex at pilosoft.com
>Reply-To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
>To: NYLUG Technical Discussion <nylug-talk at nylug.org>
>Subject: Re: [nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
>
>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
>
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