Re: mounting OpenBSD partitions in FreeBSD & vice-versa

[Ted U <grendel@heorot.stanford.edu>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Michael Lucas wrote:

> OpenBSD can mount the FreeBSD root partition, but doesn't seem to find
> my other FreeBSD partitions.  The disklabels bear this out -- OpenBSD
> sees my FreeBSD slice as a single large partition.

I think your terminology is backwards, but regardless...

> In my Google searches, I see a couple references saying "don't do
> this."  Is this still the case?  I must admit, I find it somewhat odd
> that we can mount Linux partitions more easily than other BSDs.

That might be the best answer.  If you want to have some fun, you should
be able to edit your openbsd disklabel so that it contains entries for
each freebsd partition.  You may have to do this manually.  The last time
I tried something like this, the interactive mode wouldn't let me.



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