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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] FreeBSD file system
  • Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:59:20 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

sindi keesan wrote:

What file system does post-1999 FreeBSD use

My guess is: ufs

Thanks. With this basic info, further research revealed that in April 2003 the default fs for FreeBSD became usf2, which can handle a 1.5T (terabyte) file system, and not ufs2. I don't know if the ufs.o for 2.2.26 handles ufs2 and if so, whether it is read-only (like ufs.o was for 2.1.X kernel).

We booted again and a 2005 date went by, which implies ufs2. This time we typed 4 for 'single-user mode' instead of the default and it booted to the prompt (no login needed).

We got console mode instead of X (unlike Redhat or DSL or Ubuntu).
We can play with this now in order to better understand our shell accounts at www.grex.org (OpenBSD) and sdf.lonestar.org (NetBSD, I think).


and what module would we need to add to the BL3.40 kernel
to access it?

Try: fs/ufs.o

I will try this anyway.

Once we can access the files, where do we look for the login
and password?

My guess is: /etc/passwd

how do we change to 'root' and 'Enter'.

My guess is: change :x: to :: (or :*: to ::)

How do we read an existing login and password?

Cheers,
Steven

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