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Date:      Mon, 06 Oct 1997 13:04:08 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        poker2@northernnet.com
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@shell.futuresouth.com>, "Marc M. LaFerrera" <mml@sunlink.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP!??!?!
Message-ID:  <34394438.28CC1042@whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.96.971004232946.16069A-100000@earth.sunlink.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971004232506.613A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <19971006084242.23585@poker2.northernnet.com>

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Electric Head wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 04, 1997 at 11:33:53PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Marc M. LaFerrera wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, I am having alot of problems. Hopefully you will be able to help
> > > me. First, I can't mount my linux partition from FreeBSD. Everytime I do:
> > > mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
> > > I get, :
> > > mount: ext2fs filesystem unsupported
> > > or something along those lines. I have the book "The complete FreeBSD"
> > > distributed by walnut creek cdrom. But it says nothing what so ever bout
> > > this. How do I add ext2fs support into my kernel? And, I know I shouldn't
> > > ask you this next question, but, you never know. I have the same problem
> > > with linux. I can't mount my BSD partition from linux. what would the fs
> > > type be? And how can I add support for the fs type?
> > I'm not the one to answer this, but I don't think you CAN mount a Linux
> > partition from FreeBSD, or vice versa.  The FreeBSD partition type would
> > be either ufs or 4.2BSD, though.
> 
> Yes U CAN!!! vmount does this through a ported version of Linux's fs code.
> It feeds freebsd the VFS style info through an NFS port.  Basically, you
> run a proggie, it deamonizes, and exports something to freebsd that it can
> understand.

no, there is DIRECT ex2fs support.. (as well)



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