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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:36:27 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition
Message-ID:  <20030106202001.V2390-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E18A27B.70808@fnug.net>

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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Paul A. Mayer wrote:

> Thanks for this info.  It's way beyond my technical understanding (which
> is truely minimal!), but I think I get the idea.  What would this look
> like as a series of commands?  Or better yet, what's the "right" way to
> share data between FreeBSD -current/coming and linux in a dual boot
> situation?  ... Which is the real objective, (not playing with e2fs!  ;.-)

Well, what I do in practice is only mount ext2fs partitions as needed
(mostly ro), so that most crashes don't leave them dirty.  This works
well enough since I only need them occasionally.  Booting Linux to run
e2fsck is easiest.

I used the ext2fs utilities mainly to run fs benchmarks starting with
clean file systems.  Booting Linux to run mke2fs and e2fsck for every
stage is not so easy.  Unfortunately my shell script for doing this
hasn't been updated to work with non-block devices.

Bruce


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