UFS Options¶

ufstype=type_of_ufs

UFS is a file system widely used in different operating systems.The problem are differences among implementations. Features ofsome implementations are undocumented, so its hard to recognizetype of ufs automatically. That’s why user must specify type ofufs manually by mount option ufstype. Possible values are:

old

old format of ufsdefault value, supported as read-only

44bsd

used in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSDsupported as read-write

ufs2

used in FreeBSD 5.xsupported as read-write

5xbsd

synonym for ufs2

sun

used in SunOS (Solaris)supported as read-write

sunx86

used in SunOS for Intel (Solarisx86)supported as read-write

hp

used in HP-UXsupported as read-only

nextstep

used in NextStepsupported as read-only

nextstep-cd

used for NextStep CDROMs (block_size == 2048)supported as read-only

openstep

used in OpenStepsupported as read-only