Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:49:35 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any simple tool to extract files from an UFS image ? Message-ID: <20080609204936.128EB5B4B@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:50:23 PDT." <484D7B6F.6000205@elischer.org>
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:50:23 PDT Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > 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? That was my first thought too! > > 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. You'd have to modify dump a bit since it insists on a special device to dump from (and make dump+restore work on linux). Or he can use vbackup & vftp from plan9ports. vbackup can read a variety of filesystems and archive them to a venti server. vftp can be used to retrieve files from venti. None of the three require root privs and already work on linux. http://swtch.com/plan9port/
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