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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:54:06 -0500
From:      Damon Butler <damon@hddesign.com>
To:        Erik Greenwald <erik@smluc.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Error mounting Linux ext2fs drive
Message-ID:  <415D617E.4090509@hddesign.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040930144246.GA26630@phoenix.smluc.org>
References:  <415C0C84.8000906@hddesign.com> <20040930144246.GA26630@phoenix.smluc.org>

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>>Now here's the frustrating bit. Time has passed and the machine has been 
>>shut down and rebooted a few times. After that initial success, I have 
>>never been able to mount that !$!@#$ drive again. I invariably get a
>>
>>    Operation not permitted
>>
>>error. What gives? How can I retrieve my former happiness?
>>--Damon
> 
> this is the default error spewed out when the linux file system is not
> clean. (I.E. it was not unmounted properly on the shutdown where it
> ceased working)

This is the problem! Thank you! As soon as I rebuilt the journal (it's 
actually an ext3 filesystem) I could mount the drive again.

Happiness is a mounted hard drive.
--Damon



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