[CentOS] reading ufs2 filesystems with centosplus kernel

[Akemi Yagi]

On 8/30/07, Dave <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>     I'm running centos5 with the centosplus kernel v2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 and i'm
> trying to read a drive that has a ufs2 partition on it. It was originally in
> a FreeBSD machine and has some data i'd like to get at. Googling indicated
> this should work with the command:
>
> mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 <device> <mountpoint>
>
> device is /dev/hdb5 and mountpoint is /mnt. I'm getting an error unknown
> filesystem type ufs. I'm assuming i have to load a module of some kind. Any
> help appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Dave.

ufs is not enabled in the centosplus kernel (or the standard kernel).
It will be necessary to rebuild the kernel.

Akemi