Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 00:57:51 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau789@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A how-to guide which you might wish to use for freebsd advocacy Message-ID: <201608182258.u7IMvpT5090433@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:40:18 %2B0300." <71a9ed60-90c1-9df3-4da0-cafd23e48fc0@gmail.com>
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"Jukka A. Ukkonen" wrote freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org: > > https://www.facebook.com/notes/jukka-ukkonen/upgrading-the-storage-disk-to-finnsat-fh05-hdr-digital-tv-receiver-while-retaini/10208639116987804 > > Feel free to publish the link on the freebsd web site or otherwise > distribute it further. I added cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org as it's about file systems & Ext2 & offsets. (BTW I have no facebook login, so can assure readers Jukka's page is public, no fbook login needed to access URL) An extract re FS. ] FreeBSD will by default not accept the Finnsat generated partition ] for mounting. The trick is that Finnsat creates partitions with ] slack alignment. FreeBSD knows that a live ext2fs has to be a ] multiple of 4kB, 4096 bytes in size, i.e. 8 disk blocks, 8*512 ] bytes. If the partition size is not perfectly aligned, FreeBSD does ] not allow read-write mount to an ext2fs instance. With all likelihood ] it might be a broken file system. Why should FreeBSD help making ] things worse? ] ] So, you will have to adjust the partition size such that its length ] will be a multiple of 8 disk blocks. The tool for this is gpart ] (geom partition) which both modifies the partition tables and shows ] their contents. First use the command Thanks Jukka, I've bcc'd a friend who I discussed Humax TV recorders with a while back, on similar issues, some time when I'm visiting the town where my 3 Humax owner friends are, I hope to find time to experiment with my USB to SATA converter. This thread is archived here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2016-August/004619.html & under here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2016-August/date.html Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys Eng Consultant Munich Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printable. http://berklix.eu/brexit/#stolen_votes
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