UFS filesystem

ishkabob · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Hey everyone. Ok, I have an Ultra 10 running Solaris 8. I would like to install gentoo on the scratch partition of this drive without messing with the filesystem. I have figured out how to successfully share the swap from the solaris installation. However, whenever I mount -t UFS /dev/hda4, I can read the data, but I can't write anything. The mount log says that it is writable, but I get the following error

livecd swap # mkdir gentoo
mkdir: cannot create directory `gentoo': Read-only file system

Is there any way that I can write to this UFS filesystem? If not, can I format it as ext2 or ext3 and then restore it to UFS at a later date when I don't need the computer anymore (the computer needs to be returned the way that it was?) Any ideas are appreciated.

karnesky · Apprentice Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 218

try mounting with the option ufstype=sun
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ishkabob · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

yeah I tried that, for some reason it didn't work. I did however mount it with the option ufstype=44bsd, and I was able to create a directory and put a small file in it. However, If i try to put something larger on the partition, it hangs. I think I might shrink the ufs partition (it doesn't really have anything on it), and use the extra space to make an ext2 partition. Once I'm done with the machine, i'll delete the ext2 partition, and restore the ufs partition to its original size. Thanks for the reply. Suggestions are still welcome.