From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 8:41:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AC037B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f94FfRq18229; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:41:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200110041541.f94FfRq18229@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ext2 support on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 Oct 2001 16:28:37 BST." <86vghv5sre.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:41:27 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- rm -rf /bin/laden Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message