Re: dostype, disklabel, and linux partitions

[Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ucc.ie@localhost>]

Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:07:50PM -0500, fheitka%attglobal.net@localhost 
> wrote:
> > I have installed NetBSD on my Amiga.
> > I have Linux installed on another drive.
> > How do I make NetBSD see the ext2fs partitions?
> > I tried mounting them directly but I think
> > that becuase the dostype field is set incorectly,
> > NetBSD won't let mount continue.  How do I fix
> > this without distroying data on my linux disk?
> 
> Uhm... 
> 
> - if you know how netbsd calls the partition,
> mount -t ext2fs /dev/sdNy /mnt
> (with N and y replaced by appropriate values) should work.

 If EXT2FS was compiled into the kernel. GENERIC doesn't have it,
 and the only hint that EXT2FS exists is in options(4).

 You can also mount NetBSD partitions from Linux with ufs (bsd44 option).
 Linux 2.[23].x kernels can even write such partitions, but this must be
 enabled at kernel config time.