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Bob
Asked: 2009-05-29 12:08:01 +0800 CST

How can I mount a UFS drive in linux?

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I am considering switching from FreeNAS to OpenFiler. One issue I see with this is that all the hard drives in my NAS are formatted to UFS. I tried but was unable to mount them in Fedora. Is there any way I can extract my data from the UFS hard drive without a FreeBSD OS?

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2 Answers

  1. UFS2 read only support is included into linux kernel since version 2.6.5. For example:

    mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 -o ro  /dev/hda3 /mnt/bsd/

    You still need an extra HDD to copy data from UFS drive.

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  2. Best Answer

    Linux should be able to mount UFS easily as read-only. Try modprobe ufs2 if it has trouble mounting it.

    What distro are you using?

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