On Sunday 07 May 2006 01:46, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
slice 8: ALT SEC/TRK permissions: UNMOUNTABLE VALID starting sector: 66 length: 2048
Hi Boyd, 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. 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:
Note that HP-UX, Solaris and UnixWare versions use slightly different structures, so you may not be able to read VxFS when you connect it to different system.
... as well as this excerpt from one of your links: "Vxtools is a set of command-line utilites which... can read VxFS versions 2 and 4." ... also this:
I (mhi) plan also VxFS Linux kernel driver.
... and this:
AFAIK, Rodney [redacted] works on VxFS driver for FreeBSD. I don't know current status of his project, so if you want more info contact him directly.
I can't discern the date that these items were written but, if they're reasonably contemporary, my guess would be that support for the filesystems your trying to mount isn't available yet... probably on it's way, but not available today. 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. regards, Carl