Re: Mounting XFS

["Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@sgi.com>]

If you're running BSD, and it's an XFS drive, the short answer is, you
cannot do it.

-Eric

James wrote:
> 
> I have some files on a Linux Hard-drive that I need.
> But the server is running Freebsd now, not linux (Harddrive is still in box)
> I just want to mount it and pull the files. I need to know the filesystem
> type to put in the command line
> mount -t ??? /dev/adc1 /linux
> Thanks Again!
> James
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Moore" <dxm@snort.melbourne.sgi.com>
> To: "James" <brojohnson@home.com>
> Cc: <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Mounting XFS
> 
> >
> > "James" writes:
> >
> >  => Greetings!
> >  =>     How should I (or what is the command) to mount a harddrive with =
> >  => Linux XFS filesystem from a FreeBSD 4.3 box?
> >  => Thanks in advance
> >  => James
> >
> > SGI has released XFS for Linux, not FreeBSD. Whilst it would be possible
> > to port to FreeBSD, I'm pretty sure the port does not exist.

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.