Re: Mounting a Novell Files system partition

Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:01:43 -0700

Timpanogas Research Group used to provide NetWare Filesystem support for Linux. If I understand what happened correctly, they were basically sued out of existence by Novell. Eventually they sold all assets to the Canopy Group and went away. If you ask around on the LKML you *may* be able to find somebody who kept a copy, but you may also get flamed wildly for even asking. The easiest way to get at such a partition is to find a NetWare expert and ask them to slip the drive into a test server somewhere. You should then be able to retrieve the data over the LAN. Once upon a time I probably could have arranged such a thing, but my current shop has no Novell anywhere.

Keith Morse wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Ben Duncan wrote:


I need to mount a disk partition that has ben formatted in
NWFS-386. Anyone got any idea how do to that?

Be gentle with me since I know absolutely nothing about Novell, except
how to spell it ...



AFAIK, Netware file system support has never been available in linux.

"man mount" talks about these file systems.

 -t vfstype
    The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file sys-
    tem  type.   The file system types which are currently supported
    are: adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent,  cramfs,  devpts,  efs,
    ext,  ext2,  ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs,
    nfs, ntfs, proc, qnx4,  ramfs,  reiserfs,  romfs,  smbfs, sysv,
    tmpfs,  udf,  ufs,  umsdos,  vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs.  Note that
    coherent, sysv and xenix  are  equivalent  and  that  xenix  and
    coherent  will be removed at some point in the future — use sysv
    instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the types ext and xiafs do
    not exist anymore.


If tasked with this, I'd get the disk running on a system running Netware
and copy it off via a network connection.

Lately, Novell has been babbling about Linux and open source, so there
might be tools available.  Check out http://support.novell.com.
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