From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 11:35:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.corpex.de (mileena.corpex.de [213.61.99.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1673637B423 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 2 May 2001 11:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philipp@problemchen.de) Received: from saotome.staff.corpex.de ([213.61.99.34] helo=saotome) by mail.corpex.de with smtp (Exim 3.22 #3) id 14v1Sy-0002Wy-00; Wed, 02 May 2001 20:35:12 +0200 From: "Philipp Gimm" <philipp@problemchen.de> To: "Elliott Perrin" <eperrin@bigorbit.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: AW: Trouble mounting a linux disk Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:35:11 +0200 Message-ID: <BOELLCONIBKCLEHPNCDDCEKBCJAA.philipp@problemchen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <015a01c0d337$433c2110$8701a8c0@bottleneck2000> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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