Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:36:00 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition Message-ID: <20030106072742.D505-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <3E188BF3.3040807@fnug.net>
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > I does printf, but it doesn't initiate the e2fsck. Using the ports It prints essentially the same mount failure message as ufs. > e2fsck has not shown itself to be the way to do restore order. (I get > "et hav" of ata unaligned access errors and lots of other garbage.) It always worked for me until block devices were axed. Apparently it still depends on random accesses to non-block boundaries and sizes working. > It's easier to boot up a Gentoo LiveCD and "do it right".) Or upgrade to FreeBSD-3 to get unaxed block devices :->. The ext2fs utilites work on regular files (better than ffs ones), so they can be used (very slowly and with muttering about axes) directly under FreeBSD by copying partitions to regular files, fixing them there, and copying them back. This is least painful for mke2fs since you can start with a sparse file instead of a copy of a partition. [Context lost to top posting] Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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