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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:41:27 -0400
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ext2 support on FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <200110041541.f94FfRq18229@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 Oct 2001 16:28:37 BST." <86vghv5sre.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> 

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wayne warbled,
> dochawk@psu.edu writes:


> Yep. DMA100 controller on an Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard.

> > so you're withing 1023 cylinders.  Will linux boot?  ANd what does the 
> > freebsd bootloader tell you for that partition?

> Linux never booted on that disk. It was just another partition on the
> disk for .ogg storage.

.ogg?


 
> > I think you need to mount ad7s2, not s2e.  2e would be a partition
> > within a bsd slice.  If you managed to create a linux partition
> > there, I think you'd have to engage in strange contortions to get
> > linux to find it . . .
 
> I don't recall contorting :) I've just tried to mount s2, but I get
> the following error :
 
> # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad7s2 /mnt
> ext2fs: /dev/ad7s2: Operation not permitted

> In my messages log, I get

> Oct  4 16:33:28 ford /kernel: WARNING: R/W mount denied.  Filesystem
> is not clean - run fsck

> but I can't run fsck on it because its not a BSD partition. Doh! 

> Any ideas ?

I never found a way to fsck an ext2 under bsd.  However, try 
mount_ext2fs rather than mount -text2 ; maybe this will help.

If all else fails, may a Tom's unix diskette, boot from it, and ext2fs 
the file system.

If you're not using linux with it, why have an ext2fs partition 
anyway???

hawk

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