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 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
boot32(8) Acorn Computers Ltd, RISC OS 3.7 User Guide, Cambridge, January 1997.