Can't see OpenBSD's slices
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Feb 3 20:57:04 PST 2005
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Emil Mikulic wrote:
> ad1 is a hard-drive taken from an OpenBSD machine that had / and swap
> and /tmp and /var and /usr on it (at least). The machine it's now in is
> running FreeBSD 6-CURRENT and it only sees one slice:
>
> $ ls /dev/ad1*
> /dev/ad1 /dev/ad1s4
>
> I can mount this without any issues and it turns out to be the old root
> filesystem. Is there any way to get at the other filesystems on that
> disk?
I assume the OpenBSD machine was i386 and not sparc.
Well you rattled off 5 partitions so its not MBR-based. We probably
doesn't understand OpenBSD disklabels. If we don't understand the
disklabel then we can't find the filesystems.
Do you have a partition map from OpenBSD to compare with?
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