Using UFS

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=type_of_ufs device dir

UFS Options

ufstype=type_of_ufs

: UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems. The problem are differences among implementations. Features of some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize type of ufs automatically. That’s why user must specify type of ufs manually by mount option ufstype. Possible values are:

old

:   old format of ufs default value, supported as read-only

44bsd

:   used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD supported as read-write

ufs2

:   used in FreeBSD 5.x supported as read-write

5xbsd

:   synonym for ufs2

sun

:   used in SunOS (Solaris) supported as read-write

sunx86

:   used in SunOS for Intel (Solarisx86) supported as read-write

hp

:   used in HP-UX supported as read-only

nextstep

:   used in NextStep supported as read-only

nextstep-cd

:   used for NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048) supported as
    read-only

openstep

:   used in OpenStep supported as read-only

Possible Problems

See next section, if you have any.

Bug Reports

Any ufs bug report you can send to daniel.pirkl@email.cz or to dushistov@mail.ru (do not send partition tables bug reports).