mount question

[dan radom]

* pamisano at kc.rr.com (pamisano at kc.rr.com) wrote:
> I have a freebsd drive I have attached to my linux laptop.  I would like to know if when I mount 
this drive, using mount -t ufs, if linux tries to write to this drive.
> 
> The problem I am having is this:
> 
> I have the freebsd drive attached to a firewire write block device.  I have tried to mount the 
drive using:
>  mount -t ufs /dev/discs/disc1/disc /mnt/subject
> and receive the error:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on disk, or too many mounted file systems
> 

mount -t ufs ufstype=44bsd /dev/discs/disc1/disc /mnt/subject

ufs is implemented differently amongst the many OS that use is.  You need
to specify the ufs type.

dan