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Date:      Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:07:04 +0530
From:      Niraj Kumar <niraj17@iitbombay.org>
To:        Rahul Sawarkar <torahuls@vsnl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-config@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS mounted on linux
Message-ID:  <406BB890.1050908@iitbombay.org>
In-Reply-To: <406BA2F9.6020802@vsnl.com>
References:  <406BA2F9.6020802@vsnl.com>

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Rahul Sawarkar wrote:

> Hello
> I have a freebsd ufs partition, that I access from linux using the 
> following command:
>
> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd

This is fine for 4.x series .
However , FreeBSD 5.x uses ufs2 by default . For mounting ufs2 , look at 
these patches :

http://ufs-linux.sourceforge.net

>
> Funnie: All the files and directories created by the /stand/sysinstall 
> or the freeBSD
> install CD are visible. But the recent files I downloaded from the 
> net, or any file
> created while booted in FreeBSD using "touch filename" for instance 
> are not to be seen in
> Linux.
>
> Moving or copying files has no effect.Changing attributes using 
> chflags "noopaque" has no effect.
>
> Any tips ?

Correct me if I am wrong , but linux's ufs implementation is not very 
robust . Besides , there are no
good tools for ufs fs on linux.  That is why I have started this work 
(link above).

Regards
Niraj

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