[Wlug] mounting bsd44 under RedHat

Peter Gutowski peter@linuxchamps.com
11 Nov 2002 14:14:48 -0500


I think you really need to type in 'ufsoption=44bsd' and not just '44bsd'

so your mount command probably should be:

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=bsd44 /dev/hdc1 /hdc1

( in your linux src directory, see fs/ufs/super.c )

HTH. -pg

On Monday, November 11, 2002 1:45 PM, Christopher B Stank <stanky@WPI.EDU> wrote:
>Opps!
>
>When I said bsd44, I actually meant 44bsd.
>
>Mount options for ufs
>       ufstype=value
>
>              UFS is a file system widely used in different operating
>systems.  The problems are differences among implementations. Features of
>some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize the type
>of ufs automatically.  That's why the user must specify the type of ufs by
>mount option.  Possible values are:
>
>  old    Old format of ufs, this is the default, read only.
>
>  44bsd For filesystems created by a BSD-like system
>(NetBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD).
>
>etc.
>
>Sorry for any confusion!  I have also tried it without the -o 44bsd and 
>get the same error.
>
>/Chris
>
>
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