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How do I download and install it?
The Download
Page has links to all of the project's file releases
The BeFS driver is distributed in 3 different formats. Use the one that is
convient for you.
Kernel Module
The driver is available as a source tarball that can be compiled into a
kernel module for any 2.4 kernel. In order to compile it, you must have the
headers (or full source) for the kernel you wish to run it with. Many linux
distributions put the kernel source for the installed kernel in
/usr/src/linux. If that is the case, you can just 'make' and 'make install'
to have a working befs driver. Otherwise you will have to locate your kernel
headers (debian puts them in /usr/src/kernel-headers-XXX, where XXX is the
version number) and pass that information to make on the command line like so:
- make KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-XXX
- make install KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-XXX
Once you've installed the kernel module, you should be able to mount BeFS
volumes using the directions below.
Debian Package
The debian package installs the same files as the tarball, but is more convient
for Debian users who want to manage their kernel and modules through the Debian
package system. You must have the kernel-package package
installed to do this. To use it, install the befs-module-src package. Then untar the
tarball the package installed (/usr/src/befs-module-src.tar.gz). Then run
make-kpkg as usual (except specify the modules-image target). Telling you how to
use make-kpkg is outside the scope of this document. Read the make-kpkg man
page, or look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/ if you are confused.
Kernel Patch
The driver is also distributed as a patch against the 2.4.15 linux source
tree. This patch is not needed to use the kernel module! It is for people
who want to compile the driver staticly into their kernel, and any kernel tree
maintainers who might want to integrate this driver.
To install the patch, go into the top-level kernel source directory and
type "patch -p1 < /path/to/patchfile". Where patchfile is not the literal
string "/patch/to/patchfile", but rather the actuall location of the
patchfile.
To configure the kernel to include the driver, you must activate
"prompt for experimental code and drivers" under the "Code maturity level"
menu. Then the option to include BeFS support will be under the
"Filesystems" menu.
Compile, install and reboot.
Mounting volumes with BeFS
Mount your befs partition with "mount -t befs [device] [directory]". You
can also specify the following options to mount with -o:
- uid=xxx All files on the volume will appear to be owned by user xxx
- gid=xxx Like above, but for group rather than user
- iocharset=xxx Which NLS charset to convert to and from.
If you are confused, read your system's manpages for mount and fstab.
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