Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:35:11 +0200 From: "Philipp Gimm" <philipp@problemchen.de> To: "Elliott Perrin" <eperrin@bigorbit.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: AW: Trouble mounting a linux disk Message-ID: <BOELLCONIBKCLEHPNCDDCEKBCJAA.philipp@problemchen.de> In-Reply-To: <015a01c0d337$433c2110$8701a8c0@bottleneck2000>
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Hi! Don't know about FBSD, but at least in Linux you need to compile support for other filesystems into the kernel. Maybe this is worth checking.... -p > Okay, I have a disk sitting here with an old database that a > client needs. The disk has > RedHat Linux installed on it. So I popped it into my FBSD > 4.3-STABLE box, mounted 3 of the > slices (da1s1 through s3), went to mount da1s4 and I got back. > > ext2fs: #da/0x5000a: wrong magic number 0x1e64 (expected 0xef53) > > Of course this is the mount point that the databases I need are > sitting on (go figure). I > launched /stand/sysinstall and went into fdisk just so I could > have a look at the slices, > and it was then that I noticed that the da1s4 slice I was trying > to mount was of type > extended and not of ext2fs (well, at least according to fdisk) > > So I have tried to mount this thing with every option in the damn > book, but to no > avail.... Was wondering if there is anyone that has mounted a > LINUX type extended rather > than ext2fs partition, and if they can give me a hint to solving > this (short of putting > the disk back into its old machine and booting it) > > Cheers, > > _________________________________ > Elliott Perrin > Senior Systems / Security Administrator > Biographix Corporation > Big Orbit New Media Studios > eperrin@bigorbit.com > 416-516-0705 ext 225 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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