From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 14:36:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBC016A538 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:36:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from hosting.fysics.net (unknown [63.247.94.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D9C43D2D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnny@eu4ic.net) Received: (qmail 86716 invoked by uid 1012); 22 Mar 2004 22:37:20 -0000 Received: from johnny@eu4ic.net by hosting.fysics.net by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(64.252.116.25):. Processed in 1.124361 secs); 22 Mar 2004 22:37:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO horatio) (64.252.116.25) by 63.247.94.80 with SMTP; 22 Mar 2004 22:37:18 -0000 Message-ID: <001c01c4105e$1c6d6c80$5d02a8c0@horatio> From: "Johnny" To: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:36:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: mount ext2fs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:36:25 -0000 i'm trying to mount ext2 partitions from an install of rh8 on my freebsd = box. simple process i'd think, but apparently not with the current = setup. the bsd box is 4.8-stable with a custom kernel including the = ext2fs module, so i'd like to think that isn't the source of the = problem. here is some output on the issue: euphoria# fdisk ad2 ... The data for partition 2 is: sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) start 211680, size 88814880 (43366 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 14/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 euphoria# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad2s2 /data2 ext2fs: /dev/ad2s2: Invalid argument all of the directories are in place, the kernel has the ext2fs module, = so i'm at a loss with regards to this issue. any help regarding this = would be greatly appreciated, thnx.=20 _ Johnny