Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:58:56 -0300 From: "Han Hwei Woo" <hhwoo@argosy.ca> To: "derrich" <derrich@freebsdhackers.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fsck'ing UFS partitons under linux? Message-ID: <004e01c33723$545670c0$0200a8c0@a7n8x> References: <20030620004434.L54359-100000@sigma.freebsdhackers.net>
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I believe UFS support is still experimental on Linux. Last time I tried it, I managed to mount my UFS partitions read write, but it ended up completely destroying them, so I'd approach this with extreme caution. Han Hwei Woo http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw ----- Original Message ----- From: "derrich" <derrich@freebsdhackers.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:48 AM Subject: fsck'ing UFS partitons under linux? > > I'm trying to fsck a UFS (created under FreeBSD 4.8) partition from within > a Linux system, and I'm having a whole lot of trouble. I know UFS support > is enabled in the kernel, because I'm able to mount the drive read-only. 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. > > If anyone has any suggestions, it'd be appreciated. > > Derrich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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