how to mount ufs partition under redhat AS 4 -- plz help ASAP

[Maaz]

I have some data on a FreeBSD OS partition(ufs), and I cant mount it under AS 4.
is there any patch/rpm available to mount ufs under redhat AS 4.

Regards
Maaz

[Sergejs Svitnevs · Accepted solution]

if your kernel support ufs filesystem (or "lsmod" shows the ufs module), then you can mount FreeBSD partitions by executing the following command:

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdaX /mnt/freebsdpartition

Regards

[Maaz]

No the kernel doesnt support ufs. lsmod doesnt show the ufs module.
Is there any rpm/.gz available to support the UFS under redhat AS 4 ?

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

Seems you have to include both UFS filesystem support (read only) and BSD disklabel (FreeBSD partition tables) support to the kernel or install generic 2.6.9 kernel.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Maaz,
did you try to run mount command?
as far as I remember, you don't need to see ufs module in "lsmod", mount command should load it automatically.

[Subramaniyan.S]

Hi,

The following link may be usefull, Please go through.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-5.html

rgds,

Subbu

[Vipulinux]

Hi

You wont be able to write to a UFS partition.
In order to mount it readonly use the command given by Sergies.

Cheers

[Maaz]

mount command doesnt mount the ufs filesystem, following is the message produce by mount command when i try mount the ufs filesystem:
mount: fs type ufs doesnt support by the kernel

After download u2fs-0.4.3.tar.gz from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/ufs/
#cd /usr/src
#tar zxvf u2fs-0.4.3.tar.gz
now instead of a Directory, i found 3 files
u2fs-0.4.3.patch, u2fs-0.4.3.lsm and u2fs-0.4.3.readme.
#cat u2fs-0.4.3.readme
.
.
Apply it with the following commands,
cd /usr/src
tar xvfz u2fs-0.4.3.tar.gz
patch -p0 < u2fs-0.4.3.patch

Now prblm is that when I ran the "patch -p0 < u2fs-0.4.3.patch" i got the "File to patch:" prompt. When I press just "enter" it says Skipping File[y]: y

# patch -p0 < u2fs-0.4.3.patch
File to patch:
Skipping[y]:y

but when I provide a parameter/input to File prompt, here is the output
# patch -p0 < u2fs-0.4.3.patch
File to patch: u2fs-0.4.3.patch
patching file u2fs-0.4.3.patch
Hunk #1 FAILED at 3076.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file u2fs-0.4.3.patch.rej
can't find file to patch at input line 58
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -r -c3 v2.0.17/linux/arch/i386/defconfig linux/arch/i386/defconfig
|*** v2.0.17/linux/arch/i386/defconfig Mon Aug 5 05:41:50 1996
|--- linux/arch/i386/defconfig Wed Oct 30 04:21:34 1996

File to patch:


Regards
Maaz

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

ufs read-only support is already included into 2.6 kernel. You only need to install rpm package and try to mount your share agin.

Packages for 32-bit x86:

kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.i686.rpm
or
kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL.i686.rpm (for SMP version)

[Maaz]

Current kernel version is 2.6.9-5.EL-i686. Should I have to upgrade it ?
from where I can have kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.i686.rpm
Regards
Maaz

[Maaz]

Installed FC4 and then
#mount -t ufs -o ro -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdaX /mnt/freebsdpartition

Regards
Maaz