Subject: Re: Mounting NetBSD partition through Linux
To: NetBSD-users <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/02/2006 10:07:41
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:27:07PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know I can mount any ufs partition from Linux using the command
> "mount -t ufs <blah blah>" but when doing so mounts asks me to specify
> a ufs type for the partition. What is the type for the NetBSD ufs
> partition? (The default is "old", methinks NetBSD must be one of
> "44bsd" or "ufs2").

NetBSD uses the BSD FFS, the Fast FileSystem for Unix, IIRC, it was
introduced with BSD 4.4.  UFS2 is something newer, odds are you're not
playing with it just yet.  Give the 44bsd option a try.

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org