Mounting a UFS2 drive in ubuntu (read only)

Believe it or not reading a FreeBSD UFS2 Drive Partition is even more tricky then mounting an ntfs or FAT partition! Here’s the low down on how it worked for me.

I did this using a disk formatted in FreeBSD 6.2 using UFS2 connected via a USB Disk Enclosure.

Open up a terminal and type the following commands substituting “/dev/sdc1″ with your ufs partition device name:

sudo mkdir /mnt/ufsdisk

sudo mount -t ufs -r -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ufsdisk

Voila! I could read all of the files on the drive! Not sure how to mount a ufs partition for writing, but if you need to get data off of a FreeBSD UFS2 drive (UFS2 is for FreeBSD 5-7) this should work.