Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> writes:

> The first question is, I have a 250 gig disk in the FreeBSD machine
> with /home on it, and another filesystem which I use as the source
> tree for NetBSD and FreeBSD. Is there any way to just mount these
> disks under NetBSD? I have the resources to copy the data, but here
> are the hangups:

If it's ffsv1, you should be able to mount it, perhaps after munging
the disklabel.

> 1. I still haven't found a way to preserve BSD file flags, even though
> star says it does it.

I did dump/restore to upgrade the disk in my laptop, and am pretty
sure that nodump flags were preserved.

> 2. Can I dump a FreeBSD filesystem and restore it to a NetBSD disk?
> I'm not sure about that... If so, that would be no sweat.

That should work fine.  I have actually done dumps under IRIX and
restored to NetBSD.

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        Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>