From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 5 5: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.obsidian.co.za (lava.obsidian.co.za [160.124.182.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 163CE37B9BF for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 05:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ljb@ra.obsidian.co.za) Received: from localhost (ljb@localhost) by ra.obsidian.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21865; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:08:51 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:08:51 +0200 (SAST) From: Leon Breedt To: Leonard den Ottolander Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ext2 support? In-Reply-To: <398C1CD8.10970.2C759@localhost> 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, 5 Aug 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > If you created your ext2 partitions with a recent mke2fs that uses sparse > superblocks (fe the one that comes with RedHat 6.2) it could be you can't > mount your ext2 partitions rw. My 4.0release can't, but this could have > changed recently. The sparse superblocks option is reversable, iirc. You just need to tune2fs -O to toggle it, and then run e2fsck on the filesystem to fix. Leon. -- < Leon Breedt : ljb@debian.org > < Developer, Obsidian Systems : http://obsidian.co.za > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message