reading a linux drive w/o disklabels?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Oct 14 16:22:18 PDT 2003


On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, David S. Jackson wrote:

> I've got a drive from a Linux box with partitions I need to read
> before I reformat the drive.  All I have handy is FreeBSD boxes, but
> when I try to read the drive in a freebsd box, it doesn't read or
> recognize the disk slices from Linux.  Any howto's or tips on how to
> handle this?

/usr/ports/sysutils/gpart may be worth a look.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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