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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: How to mount Solaris x86 partions in FreeBSD and vic
Message-ID: <1996Jun21.123241.13776@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <4qblva$ss6@gateman.zeus.leitch.com> <4qbrf4$sfu@helena.MT.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 12:32:41 GMT
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nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) writes:
>[ Emailed as well as posted ]
>In article <4qblva$ss6@gateman.zeus.leitch.com>,
>Fisseha Mariam <fmariam@zeus.leitch.com> wrote:
>>I have both Solarix x86 and FreeBSD installed on my system - each
>>on their own disk. I would like to mount the FreeBSD filesystems
>>while running Solaris and viseversa.
>Someone on the mailing lists attempted to do this recently, and although
>it *appeared* to work the formats were different enough such that
>mounting the FS from the other OS corrupted it when the native OS tried
>to read the FS.
>Solaris has apparently added some 'extensions' to the standard BSD-FFS to
>make it slightly incompatible.
I had such problems with NetBSD/sparc and Solaris 2.4/sparc. You can
read the solaris partition und NetBSD, but the disklabel that NetBSD
leaves after unmounting cannot be read by Solaris again. If it is the
root or usr partition the system doesn't come up anymore.
I assume the problem is the same with FreeBSD and Solaris/x86 or even
worse because the disklabel is more complicated. What about different
(4-piece DOS-) slice concepts?
I see no reason why readonly mount shouldn't be used if they work (did
for me).
Martin
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