Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:30:42 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making an ext2fs filesystem Message-ID: <20020806073042.GC27962@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <37895A3A-A8EA-11D6-8942-003065BAAC62@well.com> References: <37895A3A-A8EA-11D6-8942-003065BAAC62@well.com>
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:11:36PM -0400, James Howard wrote:
> Well, right now, everything is working except for one little part.
> How can I make an EXT2 filesystem? The tool in the Ports tree is
> broken beyond recognition (the build process is broken). And
> copying over the binary for mke2fs from a Linux box doesn't work
> either.
The best, if not only, way to create an ext2 filesystem is to do it
under Linux. So you looking at building a dual boot system or
temporarily moving your disk onto a Linux box.
However, I don't see why you absolutely have to have an ext2
filesystem directly installed on your FreeBSD box. Could you not run
the build on FreeBSD, but write the output to a filesystem NFS mounted
from a Linux box, or use rsync to copy the results of a build from the
FreeBSD machine to a Linux machine?
Cheers,
Matthew
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