On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:51:03AM -0600, Robert Wyatt wrote:
> Alexander Hansen wrote:
> > On 2/18/10 9:23 AM, Harald wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:27:42AM -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >>> On 2/17/10 11:19 AM, Harald Weis wrote:

> There are several inquiries related to your error on the Web that I 
> found via a google search. They all pretty much pointed to the same 
> thing Alexander mentioned:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-CD-SUPERBLOCK

No, this doesn't help.
 
> I think it was perfectly reasonable for him to ask whether you read 
> the man pages for mount because you did not give any indication of 
> what you tried to do regarding specifying the file system type (mount 
> -t) which seems to be directly related to your problem.
> 
> I would like to help, but 1) I tend to agree that it's a question 
> better suited to some other forum (such as FreeBSD or MacOSX) and 2) I 
> don't even know what you mean by "a correct FreeBSD partition." This 
> phrase seems to make some assumptions and I don't know what those are 
> (perhaps big-endian UFS?).

Okay, I perfectly see your point and will be more prudent next time...

> Anyhow, I wish you luck in finding a solution,

In the meantime I've got excellent replies from the FreeBSD stable list.
In brief, if one needs to preserve file ownerships and access rights,
the only solution seems to be tar(1).
 
Thanks again.
Harald

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