From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 23 8:18: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B33B37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 08:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5NFI2I01791; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:18:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200106231518.f5NFI2I01791@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: tyler spivey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting ext2 filesystems with freebsd? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:22:41 EDT." <200106222122.f5MLMfQ14566@home.com> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:18:01 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1) obligatory: rtfm 2) the fm you want is the kernel--you need to compile in ext2fs support, which is differnt than linux support. It can't be shipped as a binary as it uses code from the license that won't share, the GPL . . . 3) read the online freebsd handbook (you can get there under the support/documnentation links on the main page). 4) the command you will want is mount_ext2fs, so rtfm for mount 5) be careful. Mount ro if that's enough. I would guess it's been solved by now, but noone has ever confirmed it for me--a couple of years ago (3.2?), freebsd would, at times, write garbage data in files. I think this only happpened while writing to that file; it's the only place I encountered it. But on a machine up 24/7, I was having problems every day or two until I figured out the problem (it wasn't heavy load, either--the machine was up to serve my job market pages). The other way is trouble, too--linux ufs rw support is still experimental. 6) the best way I've found to share files between freebad and linux is on a FAT partition--it's the only on that both seem to support well. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message