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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 14:53:10 -0400
From:      "Elliott Perrin" <eperrin@bigorbit.com>
To:        "Philipp Gimm" <philipp@problemchen.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Trouble mounting a linux disk
Message-ID:  <018101c0d339$22cfe360$8701a8c0@bottleneck2000>
References:  <BOELLCONIBKCLEHPNCDDCEKBCJAA.philipp@problemchen.de>

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My FBSD box has support for pretty much every file system built into the kernel, I am
wondering where this type extended came from rather than ext2fs, ( I didn't setup the
RedHat machine). I have NTFS, MSDOSFS, EXT2FS, etc.. etc.. compiled into my kernel....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Philipp Gimm" <philipp@problemchen.de>
To: "Elliott Perrin" <eperrin@bigorbit.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: AW: Trouble mounting a linux disk


> Hi!
> Don't know about FBSD, but at least in Linux you need to compile support for
> other filesystems into the kernel. Maybe this is worth checking....
>
>
> -p
>
>
> > Okay,  I have a disk sitting here with an old database that a
> > client needs. The disk has
> > RedHat Linux installed on it. So I popped it into my FBSD
> > 4.3-STABLE box, mounted 3 of the
> > slices (da1s1 through s3), went to mount da1s4 and I got back.
> >
> > ext2fs: #da/0x5000a: wrong magic number 0x1e64 (expected 0xef53)
> >
> > Of course this is the mount point that the databases I need are
> > sitting on (go figure). I
> > launched /stand/sysinstall and went into fdisk just so I could
> > have a look at the slices,
> > and it was then that I noticed that the da1s4 slice I was trying
> > to mount was of type
> > extended and not of ext2fs (well, at least according to fdisk)
> >
> > So I have tried to mount this thing with every option in the damn
> > book, but to no
> > avail.... Was wondering if there is anyone that has mounted a
> > LINUX type extended rather
> > than ext2fs partition, and if they can give me a hint to solving
> > this (short of putting
> > the disk back into its old machine and booting it)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > _________________________________
> > Elliott Perrin
> > Senior Systems / Security Administrator
> > Biographix Corporation
> > Big Orbit New Media Studios
> > eperrin@bigorbit.com
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