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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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Subject: Re: Describing geometry of disk image file to FreeBsd
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Ryan Baldwin wrote:

> Alas, this time round it seems to have worked. fdisk
> reports the geometry I supplied. Saddly
>
> mount -t ext2fs /dev/vn0s1 ./mnt
>
> reports
>
> ext2fs: /dev/vn0s1 Operation not permited

I don't know if it is the same form vn devices, but in the case of disks
it means either you are trying to mount the file system as a non-root user,
or the file system is dirty. Try fsck_ex2fs /dev/vn0


				Fer


>
> (Sigh) I suppose the 'excitement' never ends.


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