Ed Greshko wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:12, Cornelius Kölbel wrote:
what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ?
I've got a SPARC station running Solaris 8. They indicated UFS as the file system type.
Could I read such a partition under Linux?
I've not tried it...but mount has UFS as one of its options so if UFS support is built into the kernel then yes....
Are there some repair-tools for such filesystems?
fsck....
So you think, fsck (the linux-fsck) would be able to check AND repair a solaris partition?
no... I tried this one and it was the first way i hosed a solaris system (I was doing a password recovery at the time, the PROM had been locked down so I couldn't boot off CD)
oh.. and just to re-iterate..
nooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! DON'T do a write operation unless there is _no_ other way
and - er, don't use fsck ! unless it's solaris's
One other way to recover would be to boot off CD and do an FSCK from there (using the solaris cd's naturally)
If this is not an option then try a read-only mount
if this does not work then I would have a good hunt around for a friend with a solaris box (try contacting local linux type user groups, older sun boxes are getting to be quite popular)
If this doesn't work, then you _could_ try an fsck but if it hoses your disk then don't say I didn't warn you :-) I have never had this work properly.
I would also try installing FreeBSD and trying to mount under that first (BSD uses UFS as well - tho it may be slightly different)
And again, incase I missed it :-) Write operations on a Solaris UFS system WILL hose the filesystem unless you follow the instructions to the letter and even then they are unreliable.
-- Steve.
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