From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 23 10:12:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5613F157DF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A48189D; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:12:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:12:11 -0800 From: Chris Piazza To: Donn Miller Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port of ext2fs fsck Message-ID: <19991223101211.A678@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <38625B61.BE2551E1@cvzoom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38625B61.BE2551E1@cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:57PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message