[nylug-talk] Is it mounted or not ??

[compu stretch]

Matt,

(AFAIK) Linux does not support writing to UFS. Period. Definitely none of
the distro's do, though its tricky to say that the kernal doesn't support it
as there's always some guy out there that will make it do just that, just to
prove it can be done.

The real question is why Linux lets you mount -w -t ufs, and doesn't give
you an error and tell you to remount r.o., or just mount it read only
instead and just tell you that. Maybe someone else knows *why* that is, but
in the meantime, what Alex said -- don't bother.

HTH,

forest m.
nw analyst
http://forest.blog






"matt black" <linuxmania1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Thanks Alex for the excellent advice.
>
>One quick question, when you say don't bother, do you mean bc its
>such a pain or that we will blow the fs away?
>
>Asking this because we finally (before reading your email) got it
>mounted (-o ufstype=44bsd) and it looks like one small wirte
>operation could give us a working system.