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).