If I remember correctly:

mbrlabel wd?
# cut the line for the ext2 filesystem

disklabel -E wd?
# paste the line for the ext2 filesystem
# if the new drive letter is not unique, increment it until it is
# save and quit (:wq)
# now you should be able to: mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd?? /mnt

Cheers,

Ben

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:08:53PM -0700, Brian Chase wrote:
> I've got some IDE hard drives from an old Linux system of mine.  I'd
> like to try mount them under NetBSD, but the disks show up as being
> unlabelled by NetBSD.  Each of the disks has several filesystems, some
> of them are on primary partitions, others live in extended partitions.
> 
> What's the method for mounting these under NetBSD?  Since NetBSD doesn't
> recognise the partition table on the disk, it's not clear to me how say,
> the Linux /dev/hda5 device in an extended partition maps to the
> /dev/wd0* device names.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> -brian.

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