Try mounting the FS with the FUSE plugin for ext2/3? http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fuse You will need to build it from source (or use the ports I posted to -stable the other month) http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/eac238aa244093b1/3cb587cfca9c87c3?lnk=raot