From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 03:43:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D69B1065673 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 03:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0132A8FC24 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 03:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgUsk-00057v-W3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:43:06 +0200 Received: from pool-173-79-97-89.washdc.fios.verizon.net ([173.79.97.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:43:06 +0200 Received: from nightrecon by pool-173-79-97-89.washdc.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:43:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:44:10 -0400 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-79-97-89.washdc.fios.verizon.net Subject: Re: mounting UFS CD-ROMs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:43:12 -0000 Noah Pratt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of UFS CD-ROMs, but I'm unable to mount them on > my FreeBSD 8 system. > I thought it would be possible. From the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html > > UFS CD-ROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD. Mounting disk > partitions from Digital UNIX and other systems that support UFS may be > more complex, depending on the details of the disk partitioning for > the operating system in question. > > > I tried the direct route: > > 6930p# file -s /dev/acd0t01 > /dev/acd0: Unix Fast File system [v1] (big-endian), last mounted on ^^^^^^^^^^ [snip] > > 6930p# uname -a > FreeBSD 6930p.domain.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon May 17 > 01:26:14 PDT 2010 > root@6930p.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > Am I missing something that ought to be obvious? [probable] > Is it no longer possible to mount UFS filesystems? [unlikely ;-) ] > Is there something specific about *this* UFS filesystem that prevents > it from working? > I suspect maybe the disk was written using Solaris on SPARC, which is big- endian. Most PC architectures are little-endian. -Mike