From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 04:39:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90BE37B401; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 04:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615A843F85; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 04:39:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3p2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA01689; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:39:23 +1000 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:39:22 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@delplex.bde.org To: Wilko Bulte In-Reply-To: <20030808094126.GA33827@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: <20030810211835.W57453@delplex.bde.org> References: <20030808094126.GA33827@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: John Reynolds cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:39:33 -0000 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:49:55PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:40:27PM -0500, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > > > Had to use FFS filesystem since Grub doesn't support UFS. > > ^^^ > > UFS1 > ^^^ > UFS2 ffs ffs (sic) There is only an ffs according to the man pages (;-<) : %%% $ man ufs No manual entry for ufs $ man 7 ffs | col -bx FFS(7) FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual FFS(7) ... DESCRIPTION The Berkeley fast file system provides facilities to store file system ^^^ data onto a disk device. ffs has been optimized over the years for speed and reliability and is the default FreeBSD file system. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... $ apropos ufs bread(3), bwrite(3) - read and write blocks of a UFS filesystem cgread(3), cgread1(3) - read cylinder groups of UFS disks extattrctl(8) - manage UFS1 extended attributes fsck_ffs(8), fsck_ufs(8) - file system consistency check and interactive repair growfs(8) - grow size of an existing ufs file system libufs(3) - operate on UFS filesystems from userland newfs(8) - construct a new UFS1/UFS2 file system sbread(3), sbwrite(3) - read and write superblocks of a UFS filesystem ufs_disk_close(3), ufs_disk_fillout(3), ufs_disk_fillout_blank(3), ufs_disk_write(3) - open and close userland UFS disks [So we have a library and some utilities for a UFS filesystem (sic) although we only have an ffs file system ;-).] %%% This was confusing enough when there were only ffs and plain ufs, and no libufs. There is also no support for the ffs, ufs1 or ufs2 file system types: %%% $ lsvfs Filesystem Refs Flags -------------------------------- ----- --------------- msdosfs 0 linprocfs 0 synthetic nfs 0 network ext2fs 0 cd9660 1 read-only ufs 7 procfs 1 synthetic $ find /etc/passwd -fstype ffs Warning: Unknown filesystem type ffs $ find /etc/passwd -fstype ufs1 Warning: Unknown filesystem type ufs1 $ find /etc/passwd -fstype ufs2 Warning: Unknown filesystem type ufs2 $ find /etc/passwd -fstype ufs /etc/passwd %%% Bruce