FreeBSD USF
 

I had a Maxtor NAS Drive running FreeBSD (unknown Version) I believe it's the UFS file system.

I know nothing about FreeBSD, Unix or Linux
I have 6GB of Photographs on this 80GB drive.

I need HELP...

Can I read a UFS drive under windows using any type of 3rd party utility.

If I'm shit out of luck Is anyone willing to help recover my photos.


Please help as my wift is ready to bury me out back If I can't get her family photo's back....

I believe you can read and write ufs (it is ufs if it is freebsd) with samba or sharity-light. If the freebsd install works you could also just check out http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ating-cds.html
and if it doesn't work and you have 2 cd drives. You could download the 2nd cd of freebsd which is a live cd and probably burn off the pics on to a disk. If you really get stuck and don't get a better idea here than i have given you. Try asking at www.freebsdforums.org as there are some very expert/helpful people there and it is a higher volume than here for bsd matters. Good Luck with the pics

edit- if it is a very new install/version(5 or 5.1) of freebsd the filesystem is usf2 which might pose a problem with samba/sharity light

Let me see if I've got the components right:

An 80Gig drive with the entire FreeBSD OS and all the data you want off of it.

What happened to the machine that was running the drive? Weird... uhm. If you have a spare machine, or one you can borrow, boot off of the drive and either ftp everything over... scp it over, that's probably the easiest... Basically, mounting the drive in a windows box is a difficult way of going about it. If you have a way of making that FreeBSD drive into a FreeBSD machine, then its easy to just yank it accross the network.

Basically, could you explain how these photos got marooned?

Cheers,

Finegan