From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 10:26:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rjk191.rh.psu.edu (RJK191.rh.psu.edu [128.118.193.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEBF37BA19 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from ray@localhost) by rjk191.rh.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03572; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:26:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ray) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:26:02 -0400 From: Ray Kohler To: "Ian T. Saint-Evens" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem mounting Linux Partition Message-ID: <20000406132602.A3558@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Reply-To: rjk191@psu.edu References: <20000406042740.A2944@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from isaint@iansaintevens.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:43:21AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:43:21AM -0700, Ian T. Saint-Evens wrote: > I am sure that this has already been anwered, so I apologize in > advance! But it seems when I try to mount an EXT2 partition, it won't > happen unless I do it read-only. I have the option in the kernel setup, > so what else could it be?? The error says, > > mount r/w denied due to unsupported optional features. The code for the EXT2 filesystem is rather old and not so stable any more, due to its not being used much by developers. Mounting EXT2 r/w appears to have been completely disabled, so innocent users like yourself won't shoot yourselves in the foot. I could be very wrong about this, but I seem to remember this being discussed somewhere. -- Ray Kohler FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve Feel disillusioned? I've got some great new illusions ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message