On June 22, 2005 10:25 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Wesley Groleau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have an i386 FreeBSD 5.4 I've stuck a disk from a Sun Ultra 10 on the
ATA0 slave.
If possible, I'd like to mount it to see what's what.
(and tweak some /etc files so I can get into the Sun).
Is there an fstype to mount the disk? Or even a way to see the
partition table?
Nope. FreeBSD does not support the SUN filesystem. SUN does not use a PC type
partition table (called slices in FreeBSD terminology) on Sparc systems
(which the Ultra 10 is). And, as Lowell mentioned, there is the endian issue.
All the ones I tried wouldn't work. FreeBSD does recognize there is a
disk there.
Good the disk works.
Of course, I can't be sure it's Solaris---previous owner might have
been into Linux/BSD/whatever.
If you want to learn a lot about filesystems, you could spend the next year
writing a program to access the raw disk device and start picking apart the
contents of the disk one block/byte at a time.
To start with, there's probably a problem with endianness (on the
metadata structures). Even if the Sun ran FreeBSD, that would still
apply. I'd estimate that this is about the level of a semester
project for an undergraduate programmer...
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