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need help please mounting a Sun Utra 5 Sparc disk drive connected via USB to an Ubuntu VM. This contains Solaris 9 and some files which I haven't accessed for many years. This is what I've done so far:

$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 114.5 GiB, 122942324736 bytes, 240121728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: EDA32355-9678-4599-BA3B-76115CCAEF38

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/myusb $ sudo mount -r /dev/sdb /mnt/myusb mount: /mnt/myusb: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

$ sudo mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sdb /mnt/myusb mount: /mnt/myusb: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

Been informed that ufs is most likely the filesystem on Solaris 9.

How do I check if ufs is supported? If it is, how do I mount this drive? Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

vidarlo
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