On 26 Apr 2005 08:54:31 -0400, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > 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:
>=20
> If it's ffsv1, you should be able to mount it, perhaps after munging
> the disklabel.
>=20
> > 1. I still haven't found a way to preserve BSD file flags, even though
> > star says it does it.
>=20
> I did dump/restore to upgrade the disk in my laptop, and am pretty
> sure that nodump flags were preserved.

I should have said, other than using dump. I know dump works. I see a
flag in star, but I tried all kinds of stuff and it didn't work.

> > 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.
>=20
> That should work fine.  I have actually done dumps under IRIX and
> restored to NetBSD.

That's probably what I'll do then.

Thanks!

Andy