========= 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 [email protected] or to [email protected] (do not send partition tables bug reports).