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To: Peter Mutsaers <peter@mutsaers.com>
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Subject: Re: e2fsck for FreeBSD?
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Peter Mutsaers wrote:
> 
> I run FreeBSD with some Linux ext2fs filesystems mounted. Sometimes
> FreeBSD crashes (really, but I'm running current so what do you expect :).
> 
> Afterwards, all filesystems are dirty and need to be checked. The
> ext2fs filesystems however aren't checked (unless I would boot into
> Linux), thus they can no longer be mounted (read/write).
> 
> It would be nice to be able to clean the ext2fs filesystems in
> FreeBSD. Is there a e2fsck for FreeBSD? I tried to run the Linux one
> under Linux emulation, but it failed miserably.


There is one in OpenBSD (called fsck_ext2fs), which should be possible
to port over.   If you decide to have a go at it, you might as well
bring in their fsck_msdos.

Alex


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