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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:23:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        <dochawk@psu.edu>
Cc:        <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ext2 support on FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <20011004122309.Q37821-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200110041541.f94FfRq18229@fac13.ds.psu.edu>

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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 dochawk@psu.edu wrote:

> 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 ?

Try installing the e2fsprogs port, and run fsck.ext2 on your filesystem.
I haven't tried this, but it may work.

Joe

>
> 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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