mounting a solaris partition in ubuntu?

I have task to search old external harddrives for a specific file. The drives were used with a Sun Ultrasparc 1, so they are pretty old. I have 4 drives, and I managed to mount one of them in a Sun which uses Solaris 9. I cannot mount the other ones because this was the only case were my cables fit. So I found an SCSI controller and put it into my linux machine (Ubuntu 10.10) and connected the drive. I used the one drive I had access to, because I backuped everything and I know it did work.

Now, the problem is, that I cannot mount it in ubuntu. using {fdisk -l} I get

Festplatte /dev/sdc („Sun disklabel“): 30 Köpfe, 91 Sektoren, 2878 Zylinder Einheiten: Zylinder mit 2730 × 512 Byte

Gerät Flag Start Ende Blöcke Id System

/dev/sdc1 0 2878 3928470 0 Unassigned /dev/sdc3 0 2878 3928470 0 Unassigned

Festplatte /dev/sdc1 („Sun disklabel“): 30 Köpfe, 91 Sektoren, 2878 Zylinder Einheiten: Zylinder mit 2730 × 512 Byte

Gerät Flag Start Ende Blöcke Id System

/dev/sdc1p1 0 2878 3928470 0 Unassigned /dev/sdc1p3 0 2878 3928470 0 Unassigned

Festplatte /dev/sdc3 („Sun disklabel“): 30 Köpfe, 91 Sektoren, 2878 Zylinder Einheiten: Zylinder mit 2730 × 512 Byte

Gerät Flag Start Ende Blöcke Id System

/dev/sdc3p1 0 2878 3928470 0 Unassigned /dev/sdc3p3 0 2878 3928470 0 Unassigned}

I think the main problem here is "Unassigned".

If I use dmesg | grep sdc I get[ 5.842160] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Spinning up disk....ready [ 10.254764] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 7866080 512-byte logical blocks: (4.02 GB/3.75 GiB) [ 10.257375] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 10.257381] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 8f 00 10 08 [ 10.262421] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 10.273597] sdc: sdc1 sdc3 [ 10.468921] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

This is the right disk...

Any Ideas how to mount in properly? Thx.

Arpad

Posted 2011-01-21T14:31:29.943

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Answers

In fact, I finally found the command to do it. In case somebody wants to know:

mount -oufstype=sunx86 -o ro

works very good.

Arpad

Posted 2011-01-21T14:31:29.943

Reputation: 31

That's odd. As you created your disk on a UltraSPARC 1, that should have been -o ufstype=sun (UFS big endian), not ufstype=sunx86 which is for filesystems created on a x86 machine, i.e. little endian UFS. Perhaps the mount command is smart enough to detect the mistake. – jlliagre – 2011-01-21T22:01:48.103

I do not think that the default kernel in Ubuntu supports the Sun disk layout.

I would suggest getting an OpenSolaris Live CD and boot on it on your PC. Hopefully it will recognize and mount the drive.

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Posted 2011-01-21T14:31:29.943

Reputation: 291

Unfortunately, unlike Linux, Solaris doesn't support cross architecture mounts with UFS. – jlliagre – 2011-01-21T22:02:43.890

Hi,

I tried this, but neither my laptop nor my linux machine can read or boot from the opensolaris boot cd. – Arpad – 2011-01-22T06:57:05.407

@arpad, there is two architectures, intel and Sparc. You need the correct one. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen – 2011-02-28T10:16:01.207

@jliagre, I didn't know that. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen – 2011-02-28T10:18:19.923