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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -07001=========
2Using UFS
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003=========
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5mount -t ufs -o ufstype=type_of_ufs device dir
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -07008UFS Options
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009===========
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11ufstype=type_of_ufs
12 UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems.
13 The problem are differences among implementations. Features of
14 some implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognize
Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070015 type of ufs automatically. That's why user must specify type of
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070016 ufs manually by mount option ufstype. Possible values are:
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070018 old
19 old format of ufs
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070020 default value, supported as read-only
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070022 44bsd
23 used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070024 supported as read-write
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070026 ufs2
27 used in FreeBSD 5.x
Evgeniy Dushistovcbcae392007-02-12 00:54:30 -080028 supported as read-write
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070029
Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070030 5xbsd
31 synonym for ufs2
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070032
Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070033 sun
34 used in SunOS (Solaris)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070035 supported as read-write
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070037 sunx86
38 used in SunOS for Intel (Solarisx86)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070039 supported as read-write
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070041 hp
42 used in HP-UX
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070043 supported as read-only
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45 nextstep
46 used in NextStep
47 supported as read-only
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49 nextstep-cd
50 used for NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048)
51 supported as read-only
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53 openstep
54 used in OpenStep
55 supported as read-only
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070058Possible Problems
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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070060
Evgeniy Dushistovcbcae392007-02-12 00:54:30 -080061See next section, if you have any.
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Shobhit Kukreti34d5f4f2019-07-10 08:31:23 -070064Bug Reports
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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066
Evgeniy Dushistovcbcae392007-02-12 00:54:30 -080067Any ufs bug report you can send to daniel.pirkl@email.cz or
68to dushistov@mail.ru (do not send partition tables bug reports).