ufs2tools - UFS for Windows

About

ufs2tools contains tools for reading ufs (ffs) filesystems and bsd labels from windows 2000/XP. Both ufs1 and ufs2 are supported.

ufs2tool is a program for reading ufs filesystems from windows. You can retrieve files and directories recursively. You can also list directories. bsdlabel is a program to read bsd labels. Only BSD UFS is supported (other implementations such as Solaris UFS will not work).

Write support will not be added anytime in the near future.

NOTE: only the NT series is supported, there is no plan to add support for Windows 95/98/ME.

Download

Download from the file release system (source and exe are both included).

Please see the README file before using.

Usage

Step 1: Open up 'Disk Management' to find the drive and slice.
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management

We can see that the drive number is 0 and the slice number is 3.

Step 2: Run bsdlabel drive/slice to find the partition number.

We look for partitions with type '4.2BSD'. Then we map the letter to a number ('a' = 0, 'b' = 1, etc). In this case it would be 0 for partition a.

Step 3: Test.
Run ufs2tool drive/slice/partition . as a test to list the root directory. In this case it would be: ufs2tool 0/3/0 .

Contact

If you need to contact me, you can email me: nehalmistry@gmx.net.

Last updated: August 24, 2006