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From: Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu>
To: "A. Tatsyuk" <alex_tats@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: anyone has experience mounting linux ext2 fs in FreeBSD?
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I'm pretty sure Mandrake 8.0 uses the Reiser File System rather than ext2.
That's probably causing the error when trying to mount the FS as ext2.  As
far as I know, there is no support for Reiser FS in FreeBSD.  But you can
ask around

~mike

On Wed, 30 May 2001, A. Tatsyuk wrote:

> I have both FreeBSD 4.2-RC1 and Linux Mandrake 8.0 installed on the same
> hard drive. I want to mount standart linux ext2 file system in FreeBSD to
> use X11 server, installed there (I think it's foolish to have one X11 for
> Linux and second for FreeBSD, instead of using shared). But there is one
> problem: i just can't mount it. I have compiled kernel with ext2fs support
> ("options EXT2FS"). But when I execute "mount_ext2fs /dev/ad0s2 /ext2fs"
> (ad0s2 is node file to linux slice), I recieve the following error message:
> "ext2fs: #ad/0x3002: wrong magic number 0x1d2r (expected 0xef53)". What is
> the "magic number"? Maybe anyone has experience with situation similar to
> mine (linux and freebsd are widely spread systems).
> 
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