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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: Jon Molin <Jon.Molin@resfeber.se>
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Subject: Re: mount_ext2 problem
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Jon Molin wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> and when i (as root) try mounting it i get:
> bash-2.04# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad3s1c /cdrom/
> mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad3s1c: Operation not permitted
>
> What does that mean not permitted? I've tried with all devs that start
> with ad3 and get the same on /dev/ad3s1 and Invalid argument on the
> rest...

Something is preventing you from mounting the file system. If you are
root, it usually means the file system is dirty. fsck it first. I don't know if
you can fsck an ext2 fs from freebsd.
Look at /var/log/messages for more info on why mount is failing.


			Fer


>
>
> What to do?
>
> /jon
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