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From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS? 
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	My thanks to a member of this list  who showed me what I was
doing wrong. in an example, the command is

mount -t ext2fs /dev/[yourstoragedevicename] /mnt

I had originally been typing -t ext2 which equals nothing to
FreeBSD.

Martin McCormick