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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:12:11 -0800
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net>
To:        Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Port of ext2fs fsck
Message-ID:  <19991223101211.A678@norn.ca.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <38625B61.BE2551E1@cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:57PM -0500
References:  <38625B61.BE2551E1@cvzoom.net>

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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:57PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote:
> Is there such a beast?  This would be a big big help to those who
> administer Linux boxes from FreeBSD machines.  And, it would make
> life easier for those of us who dual-boot with FreeBSD and
> Linux.  Basically, I'd like to see a port of e2fsck in the ports
> collection.

I have no idea how much work it'd be, but you or someone else
could try porting NetBSD's fsck_ext2fs some time.  That would
be what you need.
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/sbin/fsck_ext2fs/

> Don't ask;  the RedHat installer partitioned it this way. 
> Anyhow, when I do fdisk /dev/rad1, FBSD's fsck only sees 2
> partitions.  Partition one is the 120M / partition, which I can
> mount OK.  But, fdisk claims the 2nd partition is a 920 MB
> extended DOS partition.  Hmmm...  well, it may be that my second
> disk needs low-level formatted or something.

No Idea, try asking -questions if you don't get an answer here.

-Chris
-- 
cpiazza@jaxon.net   cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
        Abbotsford, BC, Canada


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