Re: Debian / UFS File System
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 14:00 -0700, Devin Atencio wrote:
> Debian Users,
>
> I currently have a FreeBSD machine at home with all my filesystems being
> UFS. I was thinking of maybe converting over to Debian Linux but didn't know
> If Debian supports reading/writing to UFS filesystems. Would this be an easy
> Thing to do or is UFS very experimental with Debian and I would have a big
> Hastle of trying to convert the filesystem over to some other format?
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Devin Atencio
>
It would seem ufs.o is included in Debian's kernels, and I can't imagine
they'd include that without support for BSD disklabels, so you should be
good to go "out of the box"
I have:
$ grep freebsd /etc/fstab
/dev/hda7 /mnt/freebsd ufs ro,ufstype=44bsd 0 0
/dev/hda9 /mnt/freebsd/var ufs ro,ufstype=44bsd 0 0
/dev/hda10 /mnt/freebsd/tmp ufs ro,ufstype=44bsd 0 0
/dev/hda11 /mnt/freebsd/usr ufs ro,ufstype=44bsd 0 0
and everything just works.
" dmesg | grep bsd " should output a copy of the bsd disklabel, ala
$ dmesg | grep bsd
hda3: <bsd: hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
and file -s on each of those devices should give a good indication of which
slice mounts where.
write-support for UFS under linux is marked experimental / dangerous
(and still is in 2.6.0) so I haven't tried it.
HTH,
Shaun
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