From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 6 1:36:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F6937B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE4443EC2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:36:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA20784; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:36:04 +1100 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:36:27 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: "Paul A. Mayer" Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition In-Reply-To: <3E18A27B.70808@fnug.net> Message-ID: <20030106202001.V2390-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Paul A. Mayer wrote: > Thanks for this info. It's way beyond my technical understanding (which > is truely minimal!), but I think I get the idea. What would this look > like as a series of commands? Or better yet, what's the "right" way to > share data between FreeBSD -current/coming and linux in a dual boot > situation? ... Which is the real objective, (not playing with e2fs! ;.-) Well, what I do in practice is only mount ext2fs partitions as needed (mostly ro), so that most crashes don't leave them dirty. This works well enough since I only need them occasionally. Booting Linux to run e2fsck is easiest. I used the ext2fs utilities mainly to run fs benchmarks starting with clean file systems. Booting Linux to run mke2fs and e2fsck for every stage is not so easy. Unfortunately my shell script for doing this hasn't been updated to work with non-block devices. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message