How to mount a FreeBSD-5.1 partition from FreeBSD-4.9

Juan Rodriguez Hervella jfrherve at ing.uc3m.es
Wed Jan 21 06:52:28 PST 2004


On Wednesday 21 January 2004 14:53, Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:26:25 +0100
>
> Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jfrherve at ing.uc3m.es> probably wrote:
> > Hello, please send the reply to myself cause Im not
> > subscribe to the list
> >
> > I've got a FreeBSD-5.1 installation in /dev/ad0s3,
> > but I usually run FreeBSD-4.9 from /dev/ad0s2.
>
> 5.x uses UFS2 by default. 4.x does not understand UFS2. In short, you
> either re-newfs the 5.x partition to be UFS1, or you are short of luck
> this time.

I can not believe you !, 

I guess there is (or there will be) some work-in-progress to have
UFS2 support on FreeBSD-4.X systems.

Or are we following "Windows way of life" here ?



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