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[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> On Sunday 07 May 2006 01:46, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
> > slice 8:        ALT SEC/TRK     permissions:    UNMOUNTABLE VALID
> >         starting sector:        66              length: 2048
> I've briefly scanned the links you provided and here's my decidedly non-expert
> opinion: I think the system feedback you're getting is accurate. I think it
> is telling you it 'sees' what appear to be valid partitions but they can't be
> mounted because support for the filesystem contained within them isn't
> available... not compiled into the kernel and no module loaded.

Thanks,  The kernel module is freevxfs

I tried

# modprobe freevxfs
# modprobe -l freevxfs | grep freevxfs
  alias vxfs freevxfs

> Regarding this statement:
> > From http://www.linux.com/howtos/Filesystems-HOWTO-9.shtml I have
> > mounted them before.  I just can not figure out why I can not mount it
> > now.
>
> Are you saying you've mounted these specific partitions before, or are you
> saying... in a generic sense... you've mounted VxFS filesystems under Linux
> before. You have to distinguish between supported and non-supported (by GPL'd
> tools) implementations of VxFS. That's kind of what this paragraph is
> alluding to:

I installed the kernel source for the latest kernel and did the steps
mentioned in my first email.  It built the freevxfs module and installed
it in

/lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/kernel/fs/freevxfs/freevxfs.ko


> Of course, I could be all wet here, but I've been doing this stuff a long time
> and that's how I'd interpret the data I've seen thus far.

I have mount UnixWare 7.1.4 partitions on SUSE 9.3 and 9.2.  I thought I
had also done it on SUSE 10.0, but the drive I used is now 10.1 RC3 so I
can not recheck it.  I had followed the same steps.

Thanks,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
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