FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Mounting and Unmounting Filesystems from Other Operating Systems

The techniques you’ve just learned are all well and good for standard FreeBSD filesystems. But what if you need to mount a disk from a Linux box or from a Windows 98 or XP machine? You can do that. FreeBSD supports the filesystems listed in Table 12.2 in the GENERIC (default) kernel.

Table 12.2. Filesystems Supported in the GENERIC Kernel

Filesystem	Name
FFS	Berkeley Fast Filesystem
MFS	Memory Filesystem
NFS	Network Filesystem
MSDOSFS	MS-DOS Filesystem
CD9660	ISO 9660 (CD-ROM) Filesystem
PROCFS	Process Filesystem

There is also support for the filesystems shown in Table 12.3, but they need to be compiled into a custom kernel in order to work (see “Compiling and Installing the Custom Kernel,” in ...