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).