Mounting UFS2 read/write on Linux
by Emile `iMil' Heitor - 2014-10-31
I recently had the need to mount an UFS2
(NetBSD) partition under GNU/Linux, and while this is surprising, a standard Linux distro, Debian in my case, is not able to mount it in read/write mode.
I came across this project https://github.com/DanielO/fuse-ufs2 which has basic UFS2
read/write support. It is not very stable, I made it crash a couple of times while using vim
on the mounted partition, but it does support simple operations like cp
, rm
and such.
Here’s how to build and use it under Debian Wheezy:
Comment out the __st_ino
. Do the same operation for fuse-ufs/op_readdir.c
Replace xvda3
with the actual partition you need to mount.
You can now access your UFS2
partition :)