Adding HD's from FreeNAS

[Donaldini]

Hey,

After my FreeNAS gave me some problems, I switched to Amahi.
Now I have a problem with adding 2 HD's that are not mounted so they can be shared.

I already looked for help on the IRC channel, but they told me to post it here, so here I am
Here's a transcript of the IRC chat to see what we've already tried and said.

Here's a pastebin of an "fdisk -l" and "mount" command.

The HD's that are not added are 2 identical Samsung's of 750GB with data on it.
One of them used to be the disk holding the FreeNAS (FreeBSD) partitions for boot.

Basically, I just want to share those 2HD's, they don't need to be shared in one folder.
I hope someone can make it work!

[moredruid]

hmm

looks like it's /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc for the hardware
you could try to mount the partitions on those drives on newly made mountpoints in /mnt to test for starters:

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mkdir /mnt/testmount mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/testmount ls /mnt/testmount umount /mnt/testmount

and then the next partition.

if however the partitions were on a software RAID in FreeNAS you'll need to recreate that part, which would be very difficult unless you know the exact settings of that setup and are proficient in software RAID.

[Donaldini]

If I try the mount I get: "Mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

Which also gave us problems (in the chatlog transcript)

[moredruid]

I think the filesystem type (looking at the partition type it's a5 - FreeBSD) will be UFS. You might want to try that. It could be that you need to load the driver for that filesystem (or recompile it into your kernel as a last resort).

[Donaldini]

As I recall correctly I already tried "mount -t UFS /...." but that didn't work, can't recall what the problem was though, maybe i'm not getting the command right?

I'm more of a Windows & Mac user, Linux is still growing on me, Not that experienced in it
So how would I load such a driver?

[moredruid]

you can load the driver like this (or check first with "lsmod | grep ufs"):

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modprobe ufs

and mount like this:

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mount -t ufs -o ufstype=<option> /dev/disk /mountpoint

where ufstype=<option> could be:
ufstype=44bsd
ufstype=old,ro
ufstype=ufs2,ro
ufstype=sunx86
ufstype=sun
ufstype=hp,ro
ufstype=nextstep-cd,ro
ufstype=nextstep,ro
ufstype=openstep,ro

and substitute disk for your disk (e.g. /dev/sdb) and mountpoint for the mountpoint you want (e.g. /mnt/testmount).

[cpg]

whoa. nice! i did not realize there was a module for ufs filesystems.

we turned down a bunch of people switching from freenas!!!

for some reason, i cannot make the post above info or sticky. can some moderator do it?

[moredruid]

apparently there is. I didn't know it either. I checked if you need to install some extra stuff (bsd-filesystems/ufs) with yum but I can't find anything so I assume this should be OK in a default install.

(I tested it on my F10 box and modprobe -i ufs worked fine).

[Donaldini]

Thanks a million moredruid!

The ufstype=ufs2,ro did the trick eventually.

Now the only thing I seem to be having is that certain folders are not accesible, due to permissions. Not on network computers and not on the Fedora machine itself. Any help on that one?

[cpg]

yes, the ufs module also loaded for me great in f12.

now, @donaldini, without details, we cannot help.

please list (ls -l FOLDERNAME) and share it here or in a PM.

also, try it in linux

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cd /path/to/folder; touch test.txt