Mounting a drive that uses BTRFS filesystem

[MrRoberts]

I have an old hard drive that uses a BTRFS file system and is plugged in as a secondary drive. It shows up as ada1s1 under ada1 using ls /dev/ada* command.

I have already created a folder called backup using mkdir /media/backup. I attempted to use mount /dev/ada1s1 /media/backup and it kept saying

Invalid argument

Do I require a BTRFS tool in order to access?

 

[wblock@]

Yes. mount(8) defaults to the native UFS filesystem. However, as far as I know, there is no native way to access a BTRFS filesystem from FreeBSD. It may require setting up a Linux VM.

 

[SirDice]

FreeBSD doesn't have support for BTRFS.

 

[MrRoberts]

Solved by using a Linux live CD and accessing the old files.