From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 11:16:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210D637B41E for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([62.252.180.214]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020108191633.RELW23801.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@localhost> for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:16:33 +0000 Received: from ac by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16O1in-0000MN-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 19:15:41 +0000 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:15:41 +0000 From: Anthony Campbell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another problem with mount_ext2fs Message-ID: <20020108191541.GA1369@debian.local> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020108164541.GA368@debian.local> <20020108184254.GB605@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020108184254.GB605@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08 Jan 2002, Benedikt Schmidt wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I haven't managed to mount my linux fs. > > > > Freebsd is on /dev/ad0; the linux files are on /dev/ad1. > > Most are logical partitions, apart from the first. > > ad1 is the whole disk. Try ad1sX where X is the slice (DOS style partition), > 1-4 are the primary partitions and >4 are logical partitions. > > See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD-2.html for how > to translate linux device names to FreeBSD names. > But the text uses the old device name 'wd' instead of 'ad'. > > > If I just use mount, it says "bad superblock" > > > If I use: "mount -t ext2fs /dev/hda1 /mnt" I get message saying there > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > should be mount_ext2fs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt > > is no such file or directory. I've tried numerous variations without > > success. > > Make sure you have "options EXT2FS" in your Kernel config (seems like > the module is missing here). > This could explain my failure. I haven't yet discovered how to change the kernel config so more research is clearly indicated. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message