From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 4:16:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE7337B648 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 04:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA24096; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 04:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 07:18:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Otter To: Marc Eckhert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting an ext2fs In-Reply-To: <000501bff3c2$b3ce25e0$91092104@esp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message