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Date:      Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:37 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Cc:        Jaap Boender <jaapb@kerguelen.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck_ext2fs problems
Message-ID:  <20050705104137.GA6220@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <42CA62C1.3090307@dial.pipex.com>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.62.0507041813480.17535@societe.kerguelen.org> <42CA62C1.3090307@dial.pipex.com>

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On 2005-07-05 11:36, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>Jaap Boender wrote:
>> I'd like to share a filesystem on the same computer between FreeBSD
>> and Linux, and as it seems that FreeBSD supports ext2 better than
>> Linux does ufs(2), I've created an ext2 filesystem. Mounting &
>> accessing Works fine, except when I try to fsck it, fsck_ext2fs fails
>> with the error message: "execve: No such file or directory". When I
>> use the e2fsck program, however, I can fsck the filesystem just fine.
>> Unfortunately, at boot time, FreeBSD wants to use fsck_ext2fs...
>>
>> A quick search on the Internet didn't show any solutions, so - does
>> anybody here know what I can do to get rid of the error message?
>
> Does Linux maybe support UFS(1) better than UFS(2)?

Not really.  The ufs support of Linux needs a bit of patching to support
all the block/fragment sizes that FreeBSD can use.  I had to patch the
kernel with the diff listed here:

http://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/linux-greek-users/2004-November/101772.html

to force the Linux kernel to accept perfectly valid UFS1 partitions.




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