On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:26:28PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > FFS is the BSD "fast file system" (yes, the Amiga also had an FFS, but > since the OP said "BSD", I'm going to discount the Amiga). I think > Linux' UFS filesystem can mount it but I'm not sure. If it can, it > should automount, but UFS may not recognize FFS markers even if it can > mount it. You can try forcing UFS to see if it'll work. > > First, make a directory somewhere where you want to mount it. A good > place would be in either /media or /mnt. I'd do it in /mnt to leave > /media pristine for automounts: > > mkdir /mnt/test > > Do a "dmesg" just before you plug in the drive, plug it in, wait a few > seconds and do "dmesg" again. The additional lines from dmesg should > refer to the device you plugged in. You'll probably see something like > this: > > sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > sdb: sdb1 > > (that's from plugging in a FLASH drive). In this case, the drive > itself is sdb (/dev/sdb) and it contains one partition, sdb1 (or > /dev/sdb1). Then: > > mount -t ufs /dev/sdXY /path/to/your/mount/point > > In this case, "mount -t ufs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test > > If it mounts up, voila! If not, either you didn't specify the right > partition or UFS doesn't mount FFS stuff. I don't have any FFS drives > handy or I'd test it for you. Thanks for this. I recognise the stuff from dmesg. I was trying to mount the ffs disk because it is handy. I have another flash device that I would like to partition as a 2 or 3 partition drive, mkfs and then copy data to it from (hd0,0). Then I want to recreate hd0 as a multi-partition drive, install 64-bit f9, and then copy the data back from the flash drive. The stumbling block for me was that I didn't understand how the usb devices are named and accessed in Fedora before they are mounted. I think I understand naming now. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
