2026-10-04 22:54 UTC
@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @MrDOS@hachyderm.io @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org Yeah I had already read this first. The information seems really stale as it refers to Linux 2.6.x! :blobfox0_0: But even then, yeah it looks like Linux can *only* see the whole partition but not the individual slices...
Hmmmm... I might reinstall and start over since the actual install was actually pretty fast. But, critical question: is it *MANDATORY* that NetBSD use FFS? Or can I use a different file system that might play nicer with Linux? I know ZFS is out of the question here, I already read the docs for that and it's messy.
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@MrDOS@hachyderm.io 2026-10-04 22:55
@techokami@woof.tech @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt “Last edited 7 years and 6 months ago” does not inspire confidence – I'm starting to suspect that newer FFS versions are unsupported by the Linux driver. It's getting pretty late for me now, but I'm inclined to try to lab this in a VM tomorrow... As heavy-handed as it might sound, I suspect it might be easier to launch the NetBSD installation as a VM under Linux (i.e., passing that whole NVMe device through to the VM) and copy things via SSH or rsync. @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org