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Subject: Re: linux recovery tool
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Robin Becker wrote:
> Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote:
> ...
>>>
>>> One of my hosters says they provide a ram based linux recovery tool, 
>>> but I'm actually using freebsd on the hardware so am wondering if 
>>> linux knows how to mount UFS partitions?
>>> -- Robin Becker
>>
>> Yes, it does 
> ...... thanks
>
>
That is if the kernel has UFS and BSD labels support compiled into the 
kernel. Be aware that UFS support isn't really 100% stable yet, so they 
marked UFS writing as "dangerous" in the Linux kernel file systems 
config section. However, UFS fs reading is "stable".
-Garrett