Using UFS¶
mount -t ufs -o ufstype=type_of_ufs device dir
UFS Options¶
- ufstype=type_of_ufs
UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems. The problem are differences among implementations. Features of some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize type of ufs automatically. That’s why user must specify type of ufs manually by mount option ufstype. Possible values are:
- old
- old format of ufs default value, supported as read-only
- 44bsd
- used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD supported as read-write
- ufs2
- used in FreeBSD 5.x supported as read-write
- 5xbsd
- synonym for ufs2
- sun
- used in SunOS (Solaris) supported as read-write
- sunx86
- used in SunOS for Intel (Solarisx86) supported as read-write
- hp
- used in HP-UX supported as read-only
- nextstep
- used in NextStep supported as read-only
- nextstep-cd
- used for NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048) supported as read-only
- openstep
- used in OpenStep supported as read-only
Possible Problems¶
See next section, if you have any.
Bug Reports¶
Any ufs bug report you can send to daniel.pirkl@email.cz or to dushistov@mail.ru (do not send partition tables bug reports).