Somewhat OT, R/W access to UFS from recovery CD

[Bassel Safadi]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <
stymar at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

>
> I have some machines which were left by someone
> who left the company some years ago.  They ware loaded
> with Solaris 7 and have UFS file systems.  They
> also have SCSI disks and my Solaris 10 boot CD does
> not have the correct drivers, thus it cannot see the
> disk.
>
> I have tried booting from the System Rescue CD and
> the UBUNTU cd and the FC8 recovery CD.  Two of the
> three can access the UFS file system, but only in
> read only mode.  I get a message saying that UFS
> support was only compiled in read only mode.
>
> Does anyone know of a Linux boot from CD which has
> the UFS read/write compiled in?  I just need to tweek
> the password file so I can get into these boxes.
> I would rather not have to build a custom kernel and
> then build a bootable CD from it.
>
> Bob Styma
> Phoenix, AZ, USA
>
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mounting a UFS in read write mode is not safe (still experimental), some
people lost their data when trying to write on a UFS hard drive, that's why
it's not enabled by default in any destro's kernel.

add to that the ufs-linux project news are four years old: (
http://ufs-linux.sourceforge.net/)

you may visit these posts:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/115396-edit-kernel-support-ufs-read-write.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/mounting-a-ufs-partition-in-linux-34664/
http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2004/11/linuxs-ufs-support.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_UFS_partitions
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