Somewhat OT, R/W access to UFS from recovery CD

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Somewhat OT, R/W access to UFS from recovery CD
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 5:27 AM
> > Does anyone know of a Linux boot from CD which has
> > the UFS read/write compiled in?  I just need to tweek
> > the password file so I can get into these boxes.
> > I would rather not have to build a custom kernel and
> > then build a bootable CD from it.
> 
> Linux doesn't really support UFS read/write. You might
> get a lot further
> on this one with a FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD box I suspect as
> they also use
> UFS
> 
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A FreeBSD Live CD, like FreeSBIE

http://www.freesbie.org/

RoFreeSBIE

http://www.rofreesbie.org/

Can get you access to the UFS filesystem on any BSD partition.  Hope this will help you in some way.

Regards,

Antonio