[Bug 268665] Re: mount cannot mount ufs / ffs

[Lars Noodén]

Still present in Quantal.

$ lsb_release -rd;uname -a
Description:	Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release:	12.10
Linux easynote 3.5.0-13-generic #13-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 27 21:32:34 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux


Excerpt from syslog:

Aug 29 18:56:02 easynote kernel: [  617.874764]  sdb: sdb4
Aug 29 18:56:02 easynote kernel: [  617.874764]  sdb4: <openbsd: >
Aug 29 18:56:02 easynote kernel: [  617.993375] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
Aug 29 18:56:02 easynote kernel: [  617.998831] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 29 18:56:02 easynote kernel: [  618.004133] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Aug 29 18:57:44 easynote kernel: [  719.698043] ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write
Aug 29 18:57:52 easynote kernel: [  728.077865] You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
Aug 29 18:57:52 easynote kernel: [  728.077865] 
Aug 29 18:57:52 easynote kernel: [  728.077865] mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|ufs2|5xbsd|old|hp|nextstep|nextstep-cd|openstep ...
Aug 29 18:57:52 easynote kernel: [  728.077865] 
Aug 29 18:57:52 easynote kernel: [  728.077865] >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
Aug 29 18:57:55 easynote kernel: [  730.767071] UFS-fs error (device sdb4): ufs_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: rec_len is too small for name_len - offset=0, rec_len=12, name_len=260
Aug 29 18:57:55 easynote kernel: [  730.777725] UFS-fs error (device sdb4): ufs_readdir: bad page in #2
Aug 29 19:02:28 easynote kernel: [ 1004.365054] UFS-fs error (device sdb4): ufs_readdir: bad page in #2

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Title:
  mount cannot mount ufs / ffs

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Mount does not recognize FFS partitions:

  $ dmesg |tail
  [  588.940772] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
  [  588.940774] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
  [  588.940777]  sdb: sdb4
  [  589.022072]  sdb4: <openbsd: >
  [  589.022165] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
  [  589.022209] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
  [  591.326093] ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write
  [  619.143630] ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write
  [  631.177276] ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write
  [  634.095300] ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write

  $ mount -V
  mount (util-linux-ng 2.13.1)

  $ lsb_release -rc
  Release:        8.04
  Codename:       hardy

  $ uname -a
  Linux macbook 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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