Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:44:10 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting UFS CD-ROMs Message-ID: <i3anju$lgf$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <AANLkTikukY9ZYDov1KA7o1ik%2BFDT-cKC4Wv46nbSoJT2@mail.gmail.com>
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Noah Pratt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of UFS CD-ROMs, but I'm unable to mount them on > my FreeBSD 8 system. > I thought it would be possible. From the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html > > UFS CD-ROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD. Mounting disk > partitions from Digital UNIX and other systems that support UFS may be > more complex, depending on the details of the disk partitioning for > the operating system in question. > > > I tried the direct route: > > 6930p# file -s /dev/acd0t01 > /dev/acd0: Unix Fast File system [v1] (big-endian), last mounted on ^^^^^^^^^^ [snip] > > 6930p# uname -a > FreeBSD 6930p.domain.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Mon May 17 > 01:26:14 PDT 2010 > root@6930p.domain.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > Am I missing something that ought to be obvious? [probable] > Is it no longer possible to mount UFS filesystems? [unlikely ;-) ] > Is there something specific about *this* UFS filesystem that prevents > it from working? > I suspect maybe the disk was written using Solaris on SPARC, which is big- endian. Most PC architectures are little-endian. -Mike
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