Date: Thu, 14 Sep 06 19:59:21 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1 Message-ID: <10609150259.AA02100@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <44u03auon5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <10609140727.AA28689@pluto.rain.com> <20060914160534.GA53648@xor.obsecurity.org> <10609142107.AA01301@pluto.rain.com> <44u03auon5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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> >> > # ll /dev/ad0s7 > >> > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 > >> > # file -s /dev/ad0s7 > >> > /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data > >> > # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab > >> > /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0 > >> > # ll -d /linux > >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 24 12:09 /linux > >> > # mount /linux > >> > mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad0s7: Operation not supported by device > >> > >> No ext2fs support in your kernel? > > > > I had not thought that was the problem, since according to > > something in the docs or manpages -- which I now cannot locate > > -- missing kernel support should have resulted in a different > > message. How would I check, to be sure? I am using the kernel > > from the installation CD, not one I have built: > > > > # uname -a > > FreeBSD fbsd61 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > The standard kernel doesn't have ext2fs support now; I doubt the 6.1 > release was different. Try loading it as a module; "kldload ext2fs". It seems not to be that easy :( # kldload ext2fs kldload: can't load ext2fs: No such file or directory Where is ext2fs.ko supposed to have come from? A search for ext2fs in the Handbook found nothing applicable, and I have already built and installed /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs.
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