[openbeos] Re: Mount BeFS on Ubuntu (and other Linux distros)

On: Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:49 AM, Shaka wrote



Season's Greetings all!
Sorry to bother y'all, but does anyone know how to enable BeFS (BFS) in Ubuntu? 

Shaka
A BeFS driver is part of the Linux kernel since 2.4 and 2.5, you only need to mount the partition.
To mount it manually, using the builtin kernel driver (as in XBOOT/fs/befs/befs.h version 0.9.3), assuming /dev/hda1 is your BeOS partition (sudo fdisk -l to check) and /media/beos the folder when you want it mounted and already created, type in a terminal: 

# sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/beos -t befs -o iolocalset=utf8

Currently there is no write support.
If you want it mounted on boot-up, with the same arguments than above, append the following line to the /etc/fstab file (for example, with gksudo gedit /etc/fstab) 

/dev/hda1     /media/beos    befs   iocharset=utf8
If you add other parse options, they will be warned, but anyway it will mount the beos partition as read-only.
To check the information in syslog, you can try dmesg | tail or your favorite way. 

Marry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

Best wishes!

Miguel Zúñiga González

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