5.14. Other Operating Systems

The Disk and Network Filesystems module supports several other operating systems in addition to Linux, using basically the same user interface. The main differences lie in the filesystem types supported by each operating system, and the type used for hard disk UNIX filesystems. Only Linux, Solaris, and Irix display a drop-down menu of available partitions when adding a hard disk filesystem—on other systems, you must enter the IDE or SCSI controller and drive numbers manually.

The operating systems on which the module can be used, and the major differences between each of them and Linux, are:

Sun Solaris Solaris uses ufs (called the Solaris UNIX Filesystem by Webmin) as its standard filesystem type for local hard ...

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