Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 08:25:02 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "M. Attan" <mrattan@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting ext2 filesystems? Message-ID: <15295.1582.131530.888490@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <39815572@toto.iv>
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M. Attan <mrattan@home.com> types: > The disk of configuration files that I made used the ext2 files system. > I am now having trouble mounting it on the FreeBSD system. > I made a mount point in /root: > /root/floppy > I originally tried: > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /root/floppy As you discovered, that's wrong. > Which gave me the following error message: > mount: exec mount_ext not found in /sbin, /usr/sbin:No such file or > directory. > So, I figured that there was no support for ext2 in the default install, > which I thought odd, so downloaded e2fsprogs-1.22. > I installed it with pkg_add. > After installing it, I realized that I had issued the improper mount > command, so I immediately uninstalled with pkg_delete. > I now tried: > mount -t ext2fs /dev/fd0 /root/floppy > This gives me the following message: > ext2fs: vfsload(ext2fs): No such file or directory. > Did I screw something up when I installed e2fsprogs-1.22? No. > Would my second mount command have worked if I hadn't installed and > uninstalled it before trying -t ext2fs? No. > Should I now go ahead an install e2fsprogs-1.22? Yes. > Is there some aspect of mounting ext2 filesystems under FreeBSD which I > am unaware of? Yes. You have to build a custom kernel - which is recommended for FreeBSD - with the EXT2FS option enabled. See /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for information in that. After you build, and boot that kernel, the second mount command should work. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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