Hello all!

Hope my questions is not OT...
I'm trying to mount a netBSD partition from a Debian (3.1 sarge). In that box I have dual boot Debian / netBSD, but I need to mount the BSD partition (which for me is hdb1) from Linux. Also I need to mount a CF whith BSD filesystem because I'm starting to install netBSD hpcmips in an old handheld device.

So, I'm trying the following from debian in order to mount the HD partition:

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

and then results:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

dmesg says the following:

ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write

If I'not wrong the kernel version does not supports read/write for ufs filesystem...

Does anybody knows where I can start some research on this? There would be any module or patch to kernel in order to support UFS?

Thanks in advance,
Matías

You might need to recompile your kernel, and add support for it.

Have you tried mount with "-t auto" instead os specifying the file system type?

--Ian

Ian,

Thanks for your advice.
As long as I needed to mount a CF device with a UFS filesystem in order to install net-bsd in a handheld device I finally used the faster solution I could imagine: I use d a net-BSD live CD and copy the stuff I needed from it. It worked.
I understand that It would be necessary to recompile the kernel. As I'm quite new to linux (I started one year ago) soon I'll try my first customization to kernel.

Thanks you very much!
Matias

Appendix

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

--> mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 -r

Now this type may do instead of above if when it doesnt