[ug-bosug] cant i mount Solaris partitions on windows and linux

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:28:38AM +0530, Anil Gulecha wrote:
>   
>> On 2/10/07, kishore kumar <prf.kishorekumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I want to mount the  Solaris partions in linux and Windows
>>> also. can ne one tell me how to do that???
>>>       
>> Get  UFSRead from  http://mount-ntfs.sourceforge.net/.. this
>> will allow you to read UFS  from windows. I'm not sure about
>> the package for linux.
>>
>>     
> ---end quoted text---
>
> Solaris file type  (UFS) is not default in Linux.  It needs to
> be compiled into the kernel as static or as a module. It comes
> under the category of  "Miscellaneous filesystems", with ADFS,
> HFS and CRAMFS  support. Just set the  CONFIG_UFS_FS option in
> ".configure" in the kernel sources root tree and recompile the
> kernel. Some distros may do it by default, most don't.
>   

   UFS support is present in SuSE and Ubuntu out of the
   box. Mandrake probably does not have it by default.
   I do not know about the others.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Some info on sharing Linux+Solaris resources are here:
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Linux+Solaris.html
>
> Bish
>
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