Subject: Mounting FreeBSD partitions/slices
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Richard Grace <rgrace@aapt.com.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/21/2002 16:11:06
Howdy folks.

I've been building my new PC as NetBSD/i386 after running
NetBSD/sparc for some years, and see that all of the disk
devices are almost similar in the i386 port.

Also having run FreeBSD, I now wish to mount my old disks
from the FreeBSD machine on the NetBSD/i386 machine to
copy the data - but came across a problem.

How do you mount the FreeBSD disk on NetBSD?

On FreeBSD, the devices are named using the format ad0s3a
etc. where:
  ad0 is the disk
  s3  is the MSDOS fdisk partition (the FreeBSD slice?)
  a   is the FreeBSD partition (8 partitions, a-h)

My data is on fdisk partition 3, as the first two were Windows
95 primary, and an extended partition.

Is this possible?  What would the corresponding NetBSD device
name be?

Thanks.

Richard.