[xubuntu-users] Can't access UFS

[Ralf ranfyy]

2012/11/29 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
> Hi :)
>
> I try to access FreeBSD from my Ubuntu install(s), but it doesn't work.
>
> spinymouse at q:/boot$ grep CONFIG_UFS_FS config-3.6.5-rt14
> CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
> # CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set
> spinymouse at q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs
> spinymouse at q:/boot$ sudo modprobe ufs
> spinymouse at q:/boot$ lsmod | grep ufs
> ufs                    74797  0
>
> So for write access I've got to build the kernel again. But when I try
> to mount it by using Nautilus (the file browser I use for Xfce 4.10) I get:
>
> Unable to mount 62 GB Volume
>
> Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/spinymouse/disk: Command-line `mount
> -t "ufs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda1"
> "/media/spinymouse/disk"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount:
> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so

mount often needs a mount option for ufs:
  ufstype=value

See: man mount
search ufstype.

But I have no idea how to tell Nautilus to use this.

- Ralf

>
> spinymouse at q:/boot$ sudo fdisk -l
> [snip]
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1              63   121274684    60637311   a5  FreeBSD
> /dev/sda2   *   121274746   625137344   251931299+   5  Extended
> [snip]
> spinymouse at q:/boot$ sudo parted -l
> [snip]
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
>  1      32.3kB  62.1GB  62.1GB  primary   freebsd-ufs
>  2      62.1GB  320GB   258GB   extended                  boot
> [snip]
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
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