what is the bsd fs called outside the bsd sphere?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-11-25 11:12, Richard Williamson <richard.williamson at u4eatech.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to be able to flash a card using a different system
> (MacOS X or Linux).  Getting sandisk.32.img to the other machine is
> not a problem.  I'm assuming that the dd is not going to be a
> problem either.  The question I have is about mounting the flash
> card on the other system
>
> What would the BSD filesystem be called?

`ufs' most of the time.

> >From the linux man page for mount:
>    The  argument  following the -t is used to indicate the file
>    system type.  The file system types  which are  currently
>    supported  are: adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent, cramfs,
>    devpts,  efs,  ext,  ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix,
>    msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs,  proc,  qnx4,  reiserfs,  romfs,  smbfs,
>    sysv,  tmpfs,  udf,  ufs, umsdos, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs.
>
> >From the MacOS X /sbin/mount_*, I see afp, cd9660, cddafs,
>    devfs, fdesc, ftp, hfs, msdos, nfs, ntfs, smbfs, synthfs, udf,
>    volfs, webdav
>
> I've tried to mount it using ufs (the default for MacOS /bin/mount)
> and been given 'invalid super block'.
>
> Any suggestions?

Use the -O 1 option of newfs when you create the filesystem of the
flash card on FreeBSD.  Otherwise, it may be newfs'd to UFS2 which
the rest of the world doesn't really grok, yet.