Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:29:18 GMT From: Paul Floyd <paulf@free.fr> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/124621: Cannot mount ext2fs partition Message-ID: <200806152029.m5FKTIOD075503@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200806152030.m5FKU23e051751@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 124621 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Cannot mount ext2fs partition >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 15 20:30:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Paul Floyd >Release: 7.0p1 >Organization: n/a >Environment: FreeBSD bisanne.orange.fr 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: Fedora 9 (and perhaps other distros) has changed ext2fs in a way that is not backwards compatible (changing the inode size from 128bytes to 256bytes). This renders ext2fs partitions unmountable by FreeBSD. >How-To-Repeat: Install Fedora 9 and les the installer format its destination partition as ext3 >Fix: Formatted the partition with gparted (under debian etch) prior to running the Fedora 9 installer, and made sure to not format the partition during the installation. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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