> Does anybody know of a way to create ufs partitions
> in Linux?
From the help info in `make menuconfig` in the Linux kernel source
package:
BSD and derivate versions of Unix (such as SunOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD and NeXTstep) use a filesystem called UFS. Some System V
Unixes can create and mount hard disk partitions and diskettes using
this filesystem as well. Saying Y here will allow you to read from
these partitions; if you also want to write to them, say Y to the
experimental "UFS filesystem write support", below. Please read the
file Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt for more information.
Hex code (type L to list codes): l
0 Empty 9 AIX bootable 80 Old MINIX a7 NEXTSTEP
1 DOS 12-bit FAT a OS/2 Boot Manag 81 Linux/MINIX b7 BSDI fs
2 XENIX root 40 Venix 80286 82 Linux swap b8 BSDI swap
3 XENIX usr 51 Novell? 83 Linux native c7 Syrinx
4 DOS 16-bit <32M 52 Microport 85 Linux extended db CP/M
5 Extended 63 GNU HURD 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access
6 DOS 16-bit >=32 64 Novell Netware 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O
7 OS/2 HPFS 65 Novell Netware a5 BSD/386 f2 DOS secondary
8 AIX 75 PC/IX a6 OpenBSD ff BBT
I guess what this all boils down to is that you'll probably be able to
set things up to read and write files via Linux to your UFS drive or
previously installed partition, but, you won't be able to create a one
via Linux.
for UFS support. He may well know some work-around (or perhaps even be
interested in helping to organise some solution if there isn't one
already).
Personally, I reckon you should just go with MINIX or some other file
system that your UNIX and Linux have in common ;). Best of luck.
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