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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2000 07:18:47 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Otter <otterr@telocity.com>
To:        Marc Eckhert <meckhert@ucla.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting an ext2fs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007220716550.19822-100000@kashmir.telocity.com>
In-Reply-To: <000501bff3c2$b3ce25e0$91092104@esp>

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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Marc Eckhert wrote:

> I switched from Redhat 6.2 to FreeBSD recently, and I have a hard drive that
> is still ext2fs.  I have been trying to mount it as:
> 
> mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad2 /blah
> 

when you mount the drive, you've given the drive's dev name, but not the
slice. if it's the first partition, try using /dev/ad2s1 or if it's the
second, use /dev/ad2s2
-Otter


 > and when I do, I get the message
> 
> ext2fs: rad2: wrong magic number 0 (expected 0xef53)
> ext2fs: /dev/ad2: invalid argument
> 
> Now, I have added to my kernel config the line from LINT that says
> 
> options	EXT2FS
> 
> and read the Linux+FreeBSD mini how-to on linuxdoc.org, but I still have no
> idea what this means. If anyone knows of what I can do to fix this, I would
> be most grateful.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
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