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.
13 .Nd operate on UFS file systems from userland
19 .In ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h
26 library and the functions it provides are used for implementing
27 utilities which need to access a UFS file system at a low level from
29 Facilities provided are used to implement utilities such as
35 library is designed to be simple, and to provide functions that are
36 traditionally useful to have.
38 A disk is represented as the type
42 The structure is filled out, operations are performed, and the disk
47 return \-1 in every functional error situation.
52 to a string describing the error.
69 .Xr ufs_disk_close 3 ,
70 .Xr ufs_disk_fillout 3 ,
71 .Xr ufs_disk_fillout_blank 3 ,
72 .Xr ufs_disk_write 3 ,
77 library first appeared in
80 .An Juli Mallett Aq Mt jmallett@FreeBSD.org
81 .An Marshall Kirk McKusick Aq Mt mckusick@FreeBSD.org
84 Additional design, feedback, and ideas were provided by
85 .An Poul-Henning Kamp Aq Mt phk@FreeBSD.org .