topic Re: Mount vxfs file system (HP-UX) on a Linux system? in Operating System - Linux

Mount vxfs file system (HP-UX) on a Linux system?

Michael Russak — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:14:30 GMT

Is it possible to mount a (hpux) vxfs system disk on a linux system to perform the cloning?
Thanks for any info. - Micha

Re: Mount vxfs file system (HP-UX) on a Linux system?

Gopi Sekar — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:38:04 GMT

Check this link to find out information about Vxfs support in linux.

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Filesystems-HOWTO-9.shtml

Re: Mount vxfs file system (HP-UX) on a Linux system?

Michael Russak — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:42:49 GMT

Thanks - the tools recommended to be used on linux are not downloadable. The URL is broken. - Micha

Re: Mount vxfs file system (HP-UX) on a Linux system?

Stuart Browne — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:48:16 GMT

Try http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/vxfs/ instead.

Re: Mount vxfs file system (HP-UX) on a Linux system?

Michael Russak — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:12:09 GMT

Thanks - I was under the impression that in order to clone the disk I needed to mount the disks first. It is indeed not necessary to mount the disk, since dd can be used as I witnessed now straight. (dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb) - Micha