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[ILUG] Mounting FreeBSD disk images under Linux?

[ILUG] Mounting FreeBSD disk images under Linux?

Ronan Cunniffe rcunniff at stp.dias.ie
Mon Sep 27 15:18:28 IST 2004



On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 P at draigBrady.com wrote:

> Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> >
> >    mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=44bsd /dev/loop0 tmp
> >
> > gives me
> >
> >   mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
> >        or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > which I suspect is because I'm not getting at the partitions within the
> > slice, but I don't know how this works from the linux worldview.
>
> You need to specify the appropriate offset
> http://www.linux.ie/old-list/39562.html
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.3/0087/disk.mount

Bingo.

(Didn't know about gpart - it's currently giving me a floating point
exception, but at least I'm not banging my head against the wall anymore)

Thanks!

Ronan



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