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Andrey
Andrey

Reputation: 31

Is there a way to determine the type UFS in Linux?

I have a UFS partition of unknown type. I would like to know what type of UFS it is from Linux (it could be any). Is there a tool (library) for Linux or method which can solve my problem. I know I can try to mount all types, but this message stops me:

>>> WARNING Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype = old

Tell me please is there a safe way to mount unknown UFS type partition?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2408

Answers (1)

Basile Starynkevitch
Basile Starynkevitch

Reputation: 1

You might run as root

file -s -L /dev/sda5

if /dev/sda5 is the disk partition. The file(1) command should tell more about the data on that partition, in particular if it is some file system data.

One you know more about that partition, you could mount it in a safer way. BTW, I would mount it as read-only first.

Upvotes: 3

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