Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:38:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Kevin Wortman <kwortman@ics.uci.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount a logical ext3 partition Message-ID: <20030429143545.B5773@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <200304291200.31518.kwortman@ics.uci.edu> References: <200304281858.40778.kwortman@ics.uci.edu> <20030428211414.E74927@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> <200304291200.31518.kwortman@ics.uci.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Kevin Wortman wrote:
>
> I'm using the default kernel, as shipped on the 5.0-RELEASE installation CD.
>
> Where would I look to see if that option is compiled in?
argh! then you don't have it.
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
recompile it:
	# cp GENERIC mykernel
	add the line:
		options EXT2FS
	to "mykernel" file
	# config mykernel
	# cd ../compile/mykernel
	# make depend
	# make
	# make install
	# reboot
good luck!
>
> Kevin Wortman
>
> On Monday 28 April 2003 07:15 pm, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Kevin Wortman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just installed 5.0-RELEASE, and I have been having trouble mounting my
> > > Linux /home partition.  It is a logical ext3 partition, which Linux
> > > called /dev/hda7 .  I've been getting the following error:
> > >
> > > # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s7 /mnt
> > > ext2fs: /dev/ad0s7: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > But the device is there, as evidenced by
> > >
> > > # ls -l /dev/ad0s7
> > > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,   7 Apr 28 17:20 /dev/ad0s7
> > >
> > > In fact all the slice/partition devices I'd expect are present, so it
> > > would seem that the kernel is reading the entire partition table
> > > correctly.
> > >
> > > I read through the archives, and the consensus seems to be that ext3 and
> > > ext2 filesystems should be interchangeable.  So I don't think that's the
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > what about your kernel?
> > does it have the line:
> >
> > options EXT2FS
> >
> > ?
>
>
>
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