Re: Install Debian testing distribution
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:48 -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:47:06 -0800
> "Michael M." <mcubed@slashmail.org> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > FreeBSD uses UFS (or UFS+ or UFS2, something like that) by default and
> > unfortunately there is no support for reading from or writing to that
> > file-system from Windows or Debian. You will be able to access your
> > NTFS (Windows) and ext3 (Debian) partitions from FreeBSD, at least to
> > read from them if not to write to them, but unless things have changed,
> > your UFS (FreeBSD) partitions will not be accessible from either Windows
> > or Debian.
>
> >From the my kernel docs (linux-source-2.6.18/fs/Kconfig):
>
> config UFS_FS
> tristate "UFS file system support (read only)"
> help
> BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a file system called UFS. Some System V
> Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
> this file system as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
> these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
> experimental "UFS file system write support", below. Please read the
> file <file:Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt> for more information.
>
> The recently released UFS2 variant (used in FreeBSD 5.x) is
> READ-ONLY supported.
>
> [snip]
>
<[and more snip]>
Cool! That's why I said "unless things have changed." :-) I looked
into it several months ago, at least. Things do change rather quickly
where Linux is concerned, perhaps a little less rapidly with the *BSD's.
I bet there are still loads of web references out there that have not
been updated to reflect that you can read from UFS partitions under
Linux, presuming you're using a recent enough kernel.
Thanks for the info!
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
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of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." --S. Jackson
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