Looking for bsd file system tools under linux .

Looking for bsd file system tools under linux .

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello All ,  I am looking for pointers to bsd file system tools
	for use under Linux .  A couple of searchs left me empty .
	I am hoping someone here has a pointer or two .
	What this is for is ,  I have a disk drive off of a bsd4.2 system
	that may have been used in a penetration of another system .
	The fstab file points at there having been a /var file system but
	when I do a 'fdisk -l' a partition for /var does not exist .  Only
	two partitions are there for / & /usr .  I am looking for some
	tools to see if the partiton was removed or if 'parted' may have
	been been used to squeese it out .  Thank you for any pointers .
		JimL

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Re: Looking for bsd file system tools under linux .

[Andreas Dilger]

On Oct 26, 2001  14:58 -0400, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 	Hello All ,  I am looking for pointers to bsd file system tools
> 	for use under Linux .  A couple of searchs left me empty .
> 	I am hoping someone here has a pointer or two .
> 	What this is for is ,  I have a disk drive off of a bsd4.2 system
> 	that may have been used in a penetration of another system .
> 	The fstab file points at there having been a /var file system but
> 	when I do a 'fdisk -l' a partition for /var does not exist .  Only
> 	two partitions are there for / & /usr .  I am looking for some
> 	tools to see if the partiton was removed or if 'parted' may have
> 	been been used to squeese it out .  Thank you for any pointers .

You may need to have BSD partition support enabled in the kernel in order
to access the partition.  I would think fdisk would be able to show the
right data in all cases, but I've never used BSD partitions before either.

Cheers, Andreas
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                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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Re: Looking for bsd file system tools under linux .

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Andreas ,

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2001  14:58 -0400, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > 	Hello All ,  I am looking for pointers to bsd file system tools
> > 	for use under Linux .  A couple of searchs left me empty .
> > 	I am hoping someone here has a pointer or two .
> > 	What this is for is ,  I have a disk drive off of a bsd4.2 system
> > 	that may have been used in a penetration of another system .
> > 	The fstab file points at there having been a /var file system but
> > 	when I do a 'fdisk -l' a partition for /var does not exist .  Only
> > 	two partitions are there for / & /usr .  I am looking for some
> > 	tools to see if the partiton was removed or if 'parted' may have
> > 	been been used to squeese it out .  Thank you for any pointers .
>
> You may need to have BSD partition support enabled in the kernel in order
> to access the partition.  I would think fdisk would be able to show the
> right data in all cases, but I've never used BSD partitions before either.
	Yes , Been there done that ;-) .  All fdisk showed was the two
	partitions mentioned above .  What I am trying to accertain is if
	the partition has been removed & squashed or just mislayed in a
	bad entry in the old 2.4.5 kernel I was running .  I am at present
	getting the digging machine upto 2.4.13 .  Tia ,  JimL

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