Error mounting Solaris disk (UFS)

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/22/13 14:57, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> After discovering an ancient 40GB hard drive in a drawer under of a
> pile of ancient papers (!), I decided to take a peek on it to see if
> there's any data worth keeping, before formatting.
>
> Discovering the file system gives me "Unix Fast File System"
>
> # file -sL /dev/sde12
> /dev/sde12: Unix Fast File system [v1] (little-endian), last mounted
> on /export/home, last written at Fri Sep 26 01:46:07 2003, clean flag
> 2, number of blocks 37882656, number of data blocks 37287436, number
> of cylinder groups 767, block size 8192, fragment size 1024, minimum
> percentage of free blocks 1, rotational delay 0ms, disk rotational
> speed 60rps, TIME optimization
>
> However, when I try to mount it, I get errors...
>
> # mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs,ro /dev/sde12 /mnt/disk39
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sde12,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>
> Changing ufstype to ufs2 gives me the same error.
>
> Any ideas? This disk was installed on a system that ran Solaris 7 x86
> at the time, I guess that was before ZFS...

Does running fsck on it produce the same results?


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