Making a UFS Partition w/ Linux


 
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Old 06-11-2003
Making a UFS Partition w/ Linux

Well, the subject speaks for itself; how does one go about making a UFS partition in a Linux environment? I don't recall seeing it as an option in my version of fdisk (I'll have to check again when I go home Smilie )
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Old 06-11-2003
You would do a
mount -t ufs /dev/hda* /mnt/somewhere

First check if UFS support is present with a
'cat /proc/filesystems' - if it isn't you need to load the kernel modules with 'insmod/modprobe ufs' (that's insmod, or modprobe)
Then check it is loaded with lsmod.
Then it's like mounting any other partition, specifying your filesystem with the -t flag.
If you forget where the partition is (it happens) you can do 'fdisk -l' although you probably knew that.

Viel Gluck.

Nope, i'm not german.
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Old 06-12-2003
Thanks Tux, but I'm well aware of how one mounts an FS/share/volume/partition/etc. I asked *how* to *make* the UFS partition. Oh well, it doesn't really mater now. I've about had it with trying Darwin - it's just a lost cause.

btw.. anyone who is going to mention parted and fdisk, yes, i've alredy tried. Thanks anyway.
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Old 06-12-2003
Oh, sorry man, I should learn to read.

As far as my knowledge goes UFS uses a partition Id of 83, which unfortunately is the same as the one for Linux swap. So I *guess* you would have to create what fdisk believes is a linux swap and use mkfs or other tool to put the UFS filesystem onto it.
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Old 06-13-2003
lol, it's all good.

I've given upon it so far. guess I'll have to wait for the next version of gtoatser (xcdroast is giving me hell).
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Old 06-13-2003
I'm not sure what relevance CD burning has to this, but gcombust is good.
# 7  
Old 06-16-2003
CD burning is relavant because this is how one installs an OS... one takes an image, burns it to CD, then boots Smilie

Thanks for the title.
 
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