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From: "Philipp Gimm" <philipp@problemchen.de>
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Subject: AW: Trouble mounting a linux disk
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:35:11 +0200
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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,
>
> _________________________________
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