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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