Not sure where to go with this question, so posting in the newbie

I'm in need of a live usb *nix capable of writing to UFS2. All can do UFS2 read, but so far found none capable of writing to UFS2.

Which live USB with GUI/desktop manager (and usb3 support) can you suggest for the task?

The hardware is limited, so no playing with virtual machines or hypervisors.

Installing a full linux with a recompiled kernel is a no go.

Setting up one of the BSD and creating a network share is a no go.

Thanks for your suggestions on which live usb can write to ufs2 !

I suggest you find out first if writing to ufs2 can be done. Somebody may not have written the code.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2111271 etc via: linux ufs2 write support

http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/ufs.txt
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFS2 )

Hi @dbowie! (I gave up & returned my Frys $59+10 tablet Might re-buy similar tho)
Just ran across this (& didn't want to knock your thread off ZRT)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zCDDQsgAOAE I wonder IF Trekstor Surftab Wintron 7 is similar...

UFS write is still, and probably always will be, experimental. Therefore, it is not enabled in any stock kernel, including those in live CDs, that I know of.

Why not just use a BSD pendrive?

Tried a few "old" fuse ufs2 from github; didn't get them to work.

AwesomeMachine is right: UFS write is still, and probably always will be, experimental. Therefore, it is not enabled in any stock kernel, including those in live CDs, that I know of.

I couldn't find any of the pendrive linux distros tu support ufs2 write.
I can't get BSD to work on a pendrive, nor can I find a BSD pendrive distro (with GUI)

Amazing how 2 similar worlds choose to ignore each other. Everyone has ZFS support. What's wrong with UFS2 ?

This is a GUI based system using FreeBSD.

http://ghostbsd.org/
http://ghostbsd.org/download

It's common, To get something open-sourced, you need
1. To be of significant interest. (An example is Wine emulating windows) OR
2. The originator to cooperate with OSS devs in the form of Proprietary info & Confidentiality agreements.
3. A certain amount of luck is involved. Most successful projects have an organized and dedicated BDFL who gives 10 years of his life to it. If the project lacks suitable leadership, it may steer up dead ends or do deeply unpopular things (e.g. systemd).
4. Acquire enough devs of quality to make it progress and solve difficult issues.

Now look around and you'll see the good projects have all those and the other projects have multiple forks or suck. Now with regard to ufs2, what is it, and where is it used, and why should anyone get off his a** and write software for it?

Pretty sure Fedora 27 has it since I saw it was updated after the install.

Pretty easy usually to add in some features on live since it has a way to run package managers. Things that affect kernel won't update. Consider making a real install to a live usb.