Re: Reading old Solaris drives?

Hi Paul,

In the past, I've had a hard time mounting UFS from Linux. There's a
large variation in UFS file systems, which doesn't help. If you have a
very modern Linux distribution, you could try:

mount -o ufstype=sun -tufs /dev/sda8 /mnt

Let me know if this works for you. Could be handy if it does.

Jon

Paul Mackinney wrote:
> I have a stack of old hard drives from a SPARCstation. I want to
> archive their data before disposing them. My preference is to mount
> them on a Linux system so I can dump them to one of my regular
> backup/archive tapes, but so far I haven't found the right mount
> command yet.
>
> I've been googling around for this, but haven't found a good procedure
> yet. Any advice welcome. Here's what fdisk has to say about the first
> drive:
>
> [root_at_smete10 ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
> Detected sun disklabel with wrong checksum.
> Probably you'll have to set all the values,
> e.g. heads, sectors, cylinders and partitions
> or force a fresh label (s command in main menu)
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 528 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 2673 2698 193242 2 SunOS root
> /dev/sda2 u 2845 2862 131449+ 3 SunOS swap
> /dev/sda3 0 522 4191778+ 5 Whole disk
> /dev/sda4 2962 2995 262899 4 SunOS usr
> /dev/sda5 0 125 1001038+ 0 Empty
> /dev/sda6 891 1016 1001038+ 0 Empty
> /dev/sda7 1782 1907 1001038+ 0 Empty
> /dev/sda8 3196 3271 601072+ 8 SunOS home
>
> TIA, Paul
>

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