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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disks under FreeBSD Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:31:58 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4le9ge$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31780214.41C67EA6@we.lc.ehu.es> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Borja Marcos <borjam@we.lc.ehu.es> writes: [You've understood almost everything correctly.] > If I don't make fdisk partitions and directly I >write a disklabel to "the disk", is it compatible with other BSD >systems? For example, could I read it on a NeXT> From what I have >seen, the NeXT seems to place a disklabel in the disk in the same >way that FreeBSD does if you "disklabel /dev/rod0". Alas, disklabels and file system layouts are very system-dependant. You might have luck if the byte-order of both machines is the same. For example, i was able to mount a UFS floppy created on an SVR4 machine under FreeBSD. (SVR4 uses some 4.2BSD file system layout, i think.) If the byte order is different, you certainly don't stand a chance. I dunno what NeXT uses as disk layout. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)