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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 02:18:26 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Rory Savage <rsavage@blastpoint.nando.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mounting Linux EXT2FS to a FreeBSD Filesystem
Message-ID:  <15016.37330.226416.225770@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <13260414@toto.iv>

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Rory Savage <rsavage@blastpoint.nando.net> types:
> Hello,
> 
>    My name is Rory Savage, and I have currently switced my workstation
> from Linux (Red Hat 7.0) to FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, and I am having
> diffuiculty mounting the my old Linux EXT2FS hard disk to my new FreeBSD
> filesystem.  
>   I used to run Red Hat 7.0 on a hard disk partitioned like this, 1
> primary paration (for /) about 1.0GB, and then an extended partition with
> 3  logical partitions for /usr, /var, and /home.  When I decided to switch
> to FreeBSD I added a new hard disk as my primary boot disk, and my my
> existing linux (ext2fs) drive my slave.  When BSD boots, it sees the drive
> as ad1, and that's okay.  But my problem is when I run fsck on /dev/ad1 or
> /dev/wd1 all I see is an entry for Partiotion 1 (EXT2FS), and Partion 2
> wich reports as an MSDOS Extneded partion.  I can't seem to mount this or
> any of the existing partitions to BSD.  
>   Do I have to do something else (special) to get this filessytem to
> mount to BSD?  For now it appears that I can only mount Linux EXT2FS
> primary partiations to BSD.  If anyone knows a way to do this, please let
> me know.

I assume you mean fdisk, not fsck. fsck fixes file systems, fdisk
prints disk slice tables. You want to use /dev/ad1s5. Logical slices
start at 5, and go up from there. I know I've seen this documented
somewhere, but I have no idea where it was.

	<mike


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