[Wlug] mounting bsd44 under RedHat

[Peter Gutowski]

Sometimes you gotta believe the error message. 

I've reread the mount man page and I see no reference to bsd44 as being a legal option. Have you tried issuing the command without the '-o bsd44'?

On Monday, November 11, 2002 7:19 AM, Christopher B Stank <stanky@parrottech.net> wrote:
>Greetings All!
>
>I am having an issue when attempting to mount a bsd44 (a freebsd 
>partition) under a base install of Redhat 8.0.
>
>The kernel is 2.4.18-14, and has loaded the ufs f/s module.
>
>The FAT looks like:
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hdc1   *         1      1912  15358108+  a5  FreeBSD
>/dev/hdc2   *      1913      8796  55295730   a5  FreeBSD
>/dev/hdc3   *      8797      9688   7164990   a5  FreeBSD
>/dev/hdc4   *      9689      9731    345397+  a5  FreeBSD
>
>I have attempted to mount the hdc1 partition as follows:
>mount -t ufs -o bsd44 /dev/hdc1 /hdc1
>
>and I get the following error:
>"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
>       or too many mounted file systems"
>
>Does anyone have any insight as to what I am doing wrong!  Any help would 
>be greatly appreciated, as I need to get the data off these FreeBSD 
>partitions before I format them as EXT3.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>/Chris

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