Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:15:52 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: derrich <derrich@freebsdhackers.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck'ing UFS partitons under linux? Message-ID: <200306201815.52365.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20030620004434.L54359-100000@sigma.freebsdhackers.net> References: <20030620004434.L54359-100000@sigma.freebsdhackers.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:18, derrich wrote: > I'm trying to fsck a UFS (created under FreeBSD 4.8) partition from wit= hin > a Linux system, and I'm having a whole lot of trouble. I know UFS suppo= rt > is enabled in the kernel, because I'm able to mount the drive read-only= =2E I > believe I've been unable to mount it read-write because the drive needs= to > be fsck'ed, but I can't figure out how to do this under linux. > > I've tried running 'fsck -t ufs /dev/hda2', but I get an error about > /sbin/fsck.ufs not existing ... and googling 'fsck.ufs' turns up very > little, and what little it turns up isn't all in English, which doesn't > really help me. > =46rom this I would gather linux does not have an fsck variant able to de= al with an ufs file system (and I don't think I'd want to trust it if it did). If= the=20 partition is imperfect then clean it up under FreeBSD. Surely this is a question for linux -- not FreeBSD. I, and guess many other subscribers to this mailing list, would have no i= dea how linux names and manages bsd style partitions within slices which I be= lieve is exotic in linux. Malcolm Kay
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200306201815.52365.malcolm.kay>