Converting or Reading UFS?

[Charles Swiger]

On Jul 26, 2004, at 3:34 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>    I have 4 large (120- 200 Gig) hard drives   server. The server 
>> died and I'm no longer using FreeBSD  I can get the data off these 
>> drives?
>>
>>    - Convert UFS to any other mountable and   OS X? If so, where? I 
>> thought maybe Ghost, but sector copies, which are not readable by 
>> Ghost
>>
> isn't OS X capable of reading UFS?

Yes, certainly.  However, MacOS X keeps filesystem data in network byte 
order (aka big-endian); I'm not sure whether it knows how to understand 
a FreeBSD UFS filesystem, which most probably uses native little-endian 
byte order.  It may still be worth a try.

Otherwise, the best bet is to mount these drives on a FreeBSD box long 
enough to either rsync the data to some other machine, or take a backup 
using tar or dump.

-- 
-Chuck