Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:24:06 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount Logical (ext2fs) Partitions? Message-ID: <87bocb6eo9.fsf@oak.localnet> In-Reply-To: <ke0gj9$v7t$1@ger.gmane.org> (Walter Hurry's message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:01:45 %2B0000 (UTC)") References: <kdv4ud$noq$1@ger.gmane.org> <87fw1o5y6o.fsf@oak.localnet> <ke0gj9$v7t$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:07:59 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> There is a package called 'linuxfdisk' that is just a FreeBSD >> implementation of the linux fdisk and will show you what the FreeBSD >> partitions/slices are. You can also use gpart in the base system to get >> the same information. The command 'gpart list ada0' will show the >> primary partitions, and the command 'gpart list ada0s4' should show the >> logical partitions inside of the extended partition. You can also use >> 'file -s' and possibly do read-only mounts to see exactly what they >> contain. The names will probably map out like linux, but the 'sda*' >> will be changed to 'ada0s*'. > > Thanks for the pointers. Here is the relevant part of the output from > 'gpart list ada0s4': > > 4. Name: ada0s8 > Mediasize: 41943040000 (39G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 162529280 > Mode: r0w0e0 > rawtype: 131 > length: 41943040000 > offset: 46143188992 > type: linux-data > index: 1430498 > end: 172043415 > start: 90121368 > > So I put into my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/ada0s8 /u01 ext2fs ro,noauto 0 0 > > But when I issue 'sudo mount /u01' I get: > > mount: /dev/ada0s8: Invalid argument > > > What am I doing wrong? I don't see anything wrong there. I use labels when possible, but that doesn't really change anything. Have you tried using 'file -s /dev/ada0s8' to see what the kernel thinks it is? -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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