Subject: Re: Mounting partition from Mac disk on NetBSD/i386
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/01/2007 15:32:06
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:38:41PM +0100, Christoph Leuzinger wrote:
> Sorry for the crossposting, but I figure that maybe there's somebody
> on port-macppc that might help with this.
> 
> I'm attempting some data recovery after my iBook died (again). I took
> the iBook's hard drive and put it in my NetBSD/i386 box. Now I'd like
> to mount an ext3 partition that is located on that disk.

I was about to write "given the information from pdisk, you can write
a disklabel", which is true, but once you have done that, can NetBSD
mount ext3 disks, or just ext2 disks? (I haven't needed to try...)

Cheers,

Patrick