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Date:      Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:50:23 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any simple tool to extract files from an UFS image ?
Message-ID:  <484D7B6F.6000205@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080609183206.GA257@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20080609141441.GA5025@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <484D6DBC.4040309@elischer.org> <20080609183206.GA257@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:51:56AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am doing some work recently on small FreeBSD images (picobsd and 
>>> friends),
>>> and I need to run on a linux machine some script to customize
>>> both the UFS and the ISO image.
>> dump and restore?
> 
> ???
> 
> the UFS image is just a file produced on FreeBSD - i'd rather not
> require root privs to mount the image in order to manipulate it.
> 
> cheers
> luigi

dump reads the UFS filesystem directly does it not? piped into 
restore, it puts the files onto a mounted filesystem.






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