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Date:      Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:08:51 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Leon Breedt <ljb@obsidian.co.za>
To:        Leonard den Ottolander <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ext2 support?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008051407280.21845-100000@ra.obsidian.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <398C1CD8.10970.2C759@localhost>

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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

>  If you created your ext2 partitions with a recent mke2fs that uses sparse 
> superblocks (fe the one that comes with RedHat 6.2) it could be you can't 
> mount your ext2 partitions rw. My 4.0release can't, but this could have 
> changed recently.
The sparse superblocks option is reversable, iirc. You just need to
tune2fs -O to toggle it, and then run e2fsck on the filesystem to fix.

Leon.

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< Leon Breedt                   : ljb@debian.org        >
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