1 .\" Author: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
2 .\" Date: June 04, 2003
4 .\" Manual page for libufs.
6 .\" This file is in the public domain.
15 .Nd operate on UFS filesystems from userland
21 .In ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h
28 library and the functions it provides are used for implementing
29 utilities which need to access a UFS filesystem at a low level from
31 Facilities provided are used to implement utilities such as
37 library is designed to be simple, and to provide functions that are
38 traditionally useful to have.
40 A disk is represented as the type
44 The structure is filled out, operations are performed, and the disk
49 return -1 in every functional error situation.
54 to a string describing the error.
62 .Xr ufs_disk_close 3 ,
63 .Xr ufs_disk_fillout 3 ,
64 .Xr ufs_disk_fillout_blank 3 ,
65 .Xr ufs_disk_write 3 ,
70 library first appeared in
73 .An Juli Mallett Aq jmallett@FreeBSD.org
75 Additional design, feedback, and ideas were provided by
76 .An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq phk@FreeBSD.org .