Very Computer

I am a former Linux user who has seen the necessity to upgrade to Freebsd.
This is due to a very agressive webserver which is running in excess of 400
processes at one time. Linux gets a little confused at such things...

I installed the freebsd distribution via ftp according to the instrcutiocns.
So far no problems. I was smart in that I installed it on a new drive,
leaving my already used linux drives alone - we'll come back to that in a
minute.

Well, I went to mount these drives as ext2fs so I could transfer the
material off of them onto new drives... I have one ext2fs drive which all
the drive is one partition. I was able to mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd2s1 /stats
just fine. I then went to my other drive to mount 1 of the three partitions
in order to get the material off of it and reinit it under UFS. There are
four partitions on this drive /wd3 -  - /wd3s1, wd3s2, wd3s3, and wd3s4.
Wd3s2 is a swap partition under the old linux env. so we won't even pay any
attention to that one...

I can mount wd3s1, and wd3s3 no problam - see the syntax above, but when I
go to mount wd3s4 I get this error message:

Wrong Magic Number - C233 (Expected EF53 for EXT2FS)
and no successful mount.

And of course that is the only partition I really need the data off of. BTW,
this partition boots fine under linux and is visable to the fdisk program as
well as the freebsd partition editor - (No I didnt actidentally delete the
partition).

HELP!!!

The magic number is a number which is supposed to be at the start
of the filesystem, to stop you mounting random data as a filesystem
by accident.

Quote:>And of course that is the only partition I really need the data off of. BTW,
>this partition boots fine under linux and is visable to the fdisk program as
>well as the freebsd partition editor - (No I didnt actidentally delete the
>partition).

It might be worth trying wd3s5-wd3s8, just in case it is an extended
partition - or whatever the DOS people call it.

        David.