Re: old file system , old partition tables, and some old scsi drive

2015-09-21 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:47:49AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > And failing that, you can grep around until you find the superblock. We even have scan_ffs(8) for that. Martin

Re: old file system , old partition tables, and some old scsi drive

2015-09-20 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 04:33:21AM +, David Holland wrote: > > In any case, there is zero chance that anything from the 80s that has > ffs on it has a MSDOS FDISK partition table. You're better off using > disklabel(8) and hoping you can find a BSD-type disklabel. But we have compatibility

Re: old file system , old partition tables, and some old scsi drive

2015-09-20 Thread David Holland
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:45:16PM +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Dear All, > I need to list old partition tables and old fs to put into netbsd kernel. > How can I provide them? You are best off forgetting about partition tables. Instead, figure out where the beginnings and ends of the

old file system , old partition tables, and some old scsi drive

2015-09-18 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear All, Because netbsd can support many arch, I decide to do this project with netbsd.I have a disk about 1985 and it's work under a special machine, I have to get mount from this disk. I need to list old partition tables and old fs to put into netbsd kernel. How can I provide them? BTW, I