HELP!: SCO UNIX SYSV FS > LINUX
Matthew Hyne
For a start - there are more than just one SYSV filesystems - you will
need to know what filesystem type that disk is.
secondly - the filesystems are supported in the kernel so just copying
the mount et al binaries will not work. The Linux kernel does not
support (or need to) any of the SCO filesystems (as SCO does not support
Linux ext2 etc). You will have to install a SCO OS (OSR5) on another
machine and then locally mount this. You will then have to mount the
SCO filesystem on your Linux box using NFS.
If you do not have SCO Openserver you can get it "free" from SCO and
install it to do the above.
Matt
Andrea Nardi Dei wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm an Italian Linux user and I've a problem:
>
> I must use an SCSI-2 Hard Disk with a Sco Unix System V rel. 3.2.2
> filesystem no-bootable. I would like to mount this filesystem under
> Linux. (This HD contains a lot of ANSI-C src that I made with a SYSV 4
> years ago. They are very important and I don't have a Sco Operating
> System!)
>
> I can see the Hard Disk from Linux and I can use fdisk to see the
> partition table but i can't mount the partition because Linux don't
> recognize it.
> I've recompiled the kernel with SYSV statement, I've tried to copy the
> "mount, fdisk, fsck, fsstat, fstyp" utilities from an Open Desktop
> rel. 5, but they don't run good under Linux (with iBCS libraries).
>
> Using linux "mount -t sysv /dev/sda4 /dir" cause reply that the system
> can recongnize the superblock and that don't correspond to a SysV fs!
>
> Linux fdisk tell me that this partition has an id #63, but Linux named
> this as "GNU HURD". There aren't a UNIX id on "List available
> partition".
>
> ...So I tried to make a floppy with a Open Desktop rel. 5 and then I
> tried to mount it on my linux, but there was the same problem, so I
> don't think that I'ts a problem of my SYSV filesystem into the SCSI-2
> Hard Disk.
>
> Did anyone know this problem or know how I can succesfully mount a
> SYSV filesystem on linux? This filesystem could be an "HTFS" and what
> is this? Can I mount this filesystem under Linux?
> To reply directly, remove "GETOUT" from e-mail address.
Radek Tomis
Andrea Nardi Dei wrote:
> I must use an SCSI-2 Hard Disk with a Sco Unix System V rel. 3.2.2
> filesystem no-bootable. I would like to mount this filesystem under
> Linux. (This HD contains a lot of ANSI-C src that I made with a SYSV
> 4 years ago. They are very important and I don't have a Sco Operating
> System!)
What is 3.2.2 ? I would assume 3.2v4.x and EAFS file system type. OTOH,
at the end of this original post and in your second post, you told us
it is probably HTFS, which is native only in SCO 3.2v5.0.x.
In case of EAFS, you might try to dig www.dejanews.com archive with
following keywords:
Subject: sco_fs - read/write access to SCO's modified sysv filesystems
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
where you should find native Linux virtual FS support (patch) for SCO's
EAFS. I cannot confirm this, because I'm not able to connect *only* to
dejanews site for almost 3 weeks :( However, I could send you the above
mentioned article, which I got from William Bader
<wil...@nscs.fast.net>, if you'd like.
Other than that, in both cases, you might try to compile my free tool
`fsrd` under Linux, which support read-access for all SCO's file system
types (except DTFS). However, there's one disadvantage at present with
`fsrd`. You won't be able to see file/directory names, unless you would
add such support (I'm about to do this in the future). You will
identify files/directories by their inode attributes (ino, permissions,
nlink, owner, group, size, mtime just like in case of `ls -l` except
file/directory name). If you'd like to try this, let me know, I'd send
you the sources.
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Radek Tomis
r...@medium.cz
James R. Sullivan
Andrea Nardi Dei wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 01:01:59 GMT, Matthew Hyne <mh...@tip.csiro.au>
> wrote:
> >If you do not have SCO Openserver you can get it "free" from SCO and
> >install it to do the above.
>
For non-commercial/educational use. If this is for a business,
like building an application, then you legally cannot use the
Free OpenServe distribution.
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