NBFS(8) | System Manager's Manual (acorn32) | NBFS(8)

# NAME

`nbfs` — NetBSD boot filing system for RISC OS

# SYNOPSIS

`*NBFS` |

# DESCRIPTION

`nbfs` is a filing system, implemented as a RISC OS relocatable module, to allow read-only access to NetBSD file systems from RISC OS. It supports reading FFSv1, FFSv2, LFSv1, and LVSv2 partitions from disks supported by FileCore-based filing systems such as ADFS.

Pathnames on `nbfs` follow RISC OS conventions, as described in the various RISC OS User Guides. The underlying FileCore instance used by `nbfs` is selected by the filing system's special field, while the disk and NetBSD partition are selected by the disk name. Thus, to refer to the first NetBSD partition of the first ADFS hard disk, one would use NBFS#ADFS::4a. RISC OS file names are generated from NetBSD file names by replacing ‘``’. with ‘`/`’. Files whose names contain characters not allowed in RISC OS file names are not accessible through `nbfs`. Thus, as a full example, the file /etc/resolv.conf on the partition mentioned above would be referred to as NBFS#ADFS::4a.$.etc.resolv/conf.

# LIMITATIONS

`nbfs` is very limited.

# SEE ALSO

acorn32/boot32(8)

RISC OS 3.7 User Guide, Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, January 1997.

February 17, 2017 | NetBSD 10.99