From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 10:38: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbes.ssbaptist.net. (linux.ssbaptist.net [216.17.141.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A7E37B8B7 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@ssbaptist.net) Received: from ssbaptist.net (waite.ssbaptist.net [192.168.1.132]) by hobbes.ssbaptist.net. (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA03496; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:42:47 -0600 Message-ID: <396F4D31.9ABCB94E@ssbaptist.net> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:26:09 -0600 From: Brad Waite Organization: South Sheridan Baptist Church X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting linux partitions References: <396EAB39.7AC8823A@ssbaptist.net> <396EAFE2.92B1C75C@S1.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harry, Thanks for the reply. I should've been more clear. I've rebuilt the kernel w/ext2fs and have successfully mounted the primary parition. It's the logical's I can get FBSD to recognize. I read something in the archives from 2 years ago about the ext2fs driver not working, but was hoping there was a solution in 4.0-Release (which I also forgot to mention :). -Brad Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > > Hi Brad, > > > > > We're trying to upgrade one of our linux servers to FBSD, and have > > encountered a snag. I cannot for the life of me get FBSD to mount the > > ext2fs logical partitions. Is there a way around this, or can I change > > the partition types of the linux drives from w/in linux to permit this? > > > > as well as /sbin/mount_ext2fs, you need in your kernel configuration > file > > "options EXT2FS", > > although, my LINT file (V4.0-R) says... > > # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit > # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind > # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could > # be dangerous (and even mounting read only could result in panics.) > > hmmm... 'all care, no responsibility' I guess ;') > > GBY, > > h -- Brad Waite Media Director - South Sheridan Baptist Church (303) 922-8304 x225 brad@ssbaptist.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message