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  Alexander Indenbaum
  baum@actcom.co.il

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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 05:00:19 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>
To: Yaniv Orenstein <nuthead@netcom.ca>
Subject: Re: your mail

On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Yaniv Orenstein wrote:

> Is that the best insult you can give? very tipical for an isralian
> it's only a questions for god sake why the insults?

Well, you must misunderstood me, sir.
I did not intend in any way to insult you.

As about isrealies, I do not like them either :{)

> 
> On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Yaniv Orenstein wrote:
> > 
> > > you are right in most linux when you boot up it says
> > > hda1 hda2 hda3 <hda5 hda6> hda4, but not in my case here
> > > is what i get:
> > > 
> > > Partition check:
> > > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> > > 
> > 
> > Realy stupid question.
> > Did you compile ufs support into kernel?
> > Another one, indeed try to change system ID
> > of Solaris partition to something more appropriate.
> > As I allready tell Linux see my ufs slices ( I have two
> > swap and / ) but can not mount them.
> > 
> > > as you can see i dont have that option to mouht hda4-6 or what ever
> > > even if i try it it claims it does not exist and since i know the ufs
> > > is a sliced up pration why indeed doesn't linux see that?
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Yaniv Orenstein wrote:
> > > 
> > > > recently i'v installed solaris 2.5.1 and i'm trying to access
> > > > it's ufs file system, but when i try to mount it reports it
> > > > as a bad superblock or wronge fs type, i'v tried every other
> > > > fs type whidh ofcouse didn't help as well, this is the command
> > > > i type to mount it:
> > > >
> > > >       mount -t ufs /dev/hda3 /mnt
> > > 
> > > Ha!
> > > 
> > > First of all there are ufs slices which if I remember right
> > > represented as extended partitions with hdaN, N>4, look at
> > > your dmesg, something like:
> >> hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > hda4
> > > so you can not mount /dev/hda3 cause it sliced
> > > inside (a, b, c, etc.. ), and you should mount /dev/hda5,
> > > /dev/hda6 etc..
> > > 
> > > Secondly ufs support in Linux is broken like hell.
> > > When I tried tomount ufs partition ( FreeBSD )
> > > I got kenel msg : "Fucking Sun is blowing me..." -
> > > very respectable :{). Anyway,  I saw a couple
> > > of ufs patches but never tried them.
> > > 
> > > >From other hand I maybe totaly wrong here and you should check
> > > with Solaris and not FreeBSD users like I am :{)
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > and another strange thing the fdisk in linux recondises the solaris
> > > > file system aslinux swap pration.
> > > 
> > > It is probably because of partition ID and should be
> > > silently ignored. I marked my Linux swap partition
> > > as FreeBSD one, so I can use it as FreeBSD swap partition
> > > ( I need to disklabel it in every boot in FreeBSD and mkswap
> > > in Linux ) but it is really another story...
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > any ideas on this subject would be greatfull.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Alexander Indenbaum
> > > baum@actcom.co.il
> > > 
> > 
> >   Alexander Indenbaum
> >   baum@actcom.co.il
> > 
> > 
> 

  Alexander Indenbaum
  baum@actcom.co.il