Mount UFS as read write

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I need some assistance mount a UFS2 partition as read and write. if its not possible, then I may have to copy a few hundred GBs of data :(. Its rather urgent.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Currently using the command:

mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=UFS2 /dev/sdb /Data

Thats just read only. Thanks in advance again

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Perhaps if you left out the -r command which makes it read only, it would allow you to write to the partition? Here is a listing of mount commands:

Linux Command Directory: mount

Thank You,

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Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. When i leave it off, i get an error saying wrong fs type, superblock…

Any ideas why. I’ve also done some research and some people are suggesting that UFS2 cannot be mounted in linux as rw. Not sure what to do there

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Try

mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2,ro <device> <mountpoint>

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It maybe because of the license UFS2 uses, it is under the BSD license isn’t it?
If that is the case it can’t be included with the Linux kernel, kind of like the whole reason ZFS isn’t.
But there should be no reason why it can’t be mounted using FUSE. :\

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that works, but its still read only:\ I even tried rw instead of ro too

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Hmm that would suck. (love ZFS btw)

How do i use fuse to mount this thing?

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OK, i think i have a way around it. I’m copying the data to an NFS share and then deleting the FS and then reformat. This is actually the first time I’ve done this via Putty only. (including the NFS mount on a CentOS VM then mounting the share, then copying) I now feel like i’m really getting the hang of command line. I’m really loving it ;). Now to wait a few hours for this thing to copy rotfl!

Thanks guys for everything