does ufs really work in 2.1.76 ?

Darren Reed (darrenr@cyber.com.au)
Fri, 2 Jan 1998 01:27:41 +1100 (EST)


I have several UFS partitions, in use by FreeBSD and NetBSD. I cannot
get anything useful with "mount -o ro -t ufs /dev/hd<xy> /mnt". For
example:

# mount -o ro -t ufs /dev/hdc5 /mnt
# df
/dev/hdc5 29263 10858 16945 39% /mnt
# ls /mnt
bin dev etc mnt usr var
# du /mnt
du: /mnt/var: No such file or directory
du: /mnt/usr: No such file or directory
du: /mnt/bin: No such file or directory
du: /mnt/dev: No such file or directory
du: /mnt/etc: No such file or directory
du: /mnt/mnt: No such file or directory
1 /mnt

(hdc5 happens to be a NetBSD root partition).
On the console I see this:

ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck
ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck
ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck

...with which I don't really agree.

Darren

p.s. at least it no longer kills the box when I mount them :-)