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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount ext2 filesystems?
Date: 24 Feb 1996 15:44:20 GMT
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ron@3rivers.net (Ron Warnick) writes:

> Can FreeBSD mount linux (ext2fs) partitions?

FreeBSD-current can.

> If so, how?

mount -t extfs /dev/wherever /mountpoint

There's no newext2fs available however, so i can't test it myself.

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cheers, J"org

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