I am considering switching from FreeNAS to OpenFiler. One issue I see with this is that all the hard drives in my NAS are formatted to UFS. I tried but was unable to mount them in Fedora. Is there any way I can extract my data from the UFS hard drive without a FreeBSD OS?
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UFS2 read only support is included into linux kernel since version 2.6.5. For example:
mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 -o ro /dev/hda3 /mnt/bsd/
You still need an extra HDD to copy data from UFS drive.
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Linux should be able to mount UFS easily as read-only. Try modprobe ufs2 if it has trouble mounting it.
What distro are you using?
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I am using Fedora 10 – Bob May 28 '09 at 20:15
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Here's a message from June 2008 the says UFS had r/o kernel support: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2008-06/msg02466.html I'd say you are fine – Matt Simmons May 28 '09 at 20:19
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Hmm, I will give it another go, I don't recall the exact error I was getting. – Bob May 28 '09 at 20:44
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Cool. I'm interested in hearing about it. Drop me a line or just reply here once you get a chance – Matt Simmons May 29 '09 at 01:22