From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 23:14:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330F137BBE3 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1D4 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:14:39 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 175; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:17:40 +1000 Message-ID: <396EAFE2.92B1C75C@S1.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:14:58 +1000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Waite Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting linux partitions References: <396EAB39.7AC8823A@ssbaptist.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Brad, > > We're trying to upgrade one of our linux servers to FBSD, and have > encountered a snag. I cannot for the life of me get FBSD to mount the > ext2fs logical partitions. Is there a way around this, or can I change > the partition types of the linux drives from w/in linux to permit this? > as well as /sbin/mount_ext2fs, you need in your kernel configuration file "options EXT2FS", although, my LINT file (V4.0-R) says... # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could # be dangerous (and even mounting read only could result in panics.) hmmm... 'all care, no responsibility' I guess ;') GBY, h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message