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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:11:58 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions?
Message-ID:  <ke1nru$4u4$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <kdv4ud$noq$1@ger.gmane.org> <87fw1o5y6o.fsf@oak.localnet> <ke0gj9$v7t$1@ger.gmane.org> <87bocb6eo9.fsf@oak.localnet> <ke1cbh$upb$1@ger.gmane.org> <87k3qzr2e0.fsf@oak.localnet>

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On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:43:51 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:

> Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> So it's my stupid mistake. I could have sworn it was ext2, but it was
>> ext4. Sorry for all the noise! However, I'm glad you have helped, and
>> that I have learned a little bit about Linux partitions as FreeeBSD
>> slices.
>>
>> It was empty, so I just reformatted it as ext2, and hey presto; all is
>> right with the world.
> 
> Good to know you have it working, but for future reference there is a
> fuse implementation of an ext4 driver:
> 
>   sysutils/fusefs-ext4fuse  EXT4 implementation for FUSE
>     EXT4 implementation for FUSE.
>     WWW: https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse/
> 
> I haven't tried it so I don't know how well it works.

Even better!

But I'll leave it for the moment; ext2 will suffice for my simple 
requirements (I only want to share a few files between FreeBSD and Linux 
without the overhead of putting them onto the external USB drive which I 
use for backups).

I have of course mounted them rw, now that it's working.

Many thanks once again.




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