From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 20:11:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67ABE37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astro.phpwebhosting.com (astro.phpwebhosting.com [66.33.60.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE71843E42 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@well.com) Received: (qmail 11192 invoked by uid 508); 6 Aug 2002 03:11:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wopr) (207.172.96.31) by astro.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2002 03:11:29 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:11:36 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Making an ext2fs filesystem From: James Howard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <37895A3A-A8EA-11D6-8942-003065BAAC62@well.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 I am doing some embedded work. The system we are working with involves a Linux kernel running some special software on a Flash card, that runs in an ARM box. So, the all of our Linux build boxes like to crash. Usually during a build. Go figure. So I suggested we build under FreeBSD. Oddly enough, I'd been doing some test development of individual utilities under FreeBSD for more than a year, so I knew this would work. It was just a matter of making it build a kernel and other more complex stuff. Well, right now, everything is working except for one little part. How can I make an EXT2 filesystem? The tool in the Ports tree is broken beyond recognition (the build process is broken). And copying over the binary for mke2fs from a Linux box doesn't work either. So I am open to suggestions. Thank you, Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message