Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:44:15 -0400 From: "M. Attan" <mrattan@home.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Mounting ext2 filesystems? Message-ID: <3BBE61EF.7948E24C@home.com>
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I have some questions about mounting ext2 filesystems that I hope someone can help me with. I have a friend who set up a box with Suse 6.4 to be a file server / print server / web server. (He installed the OS and I configured Samba, Apache, PHP, Mysql, atalk, DNS and printcap) Well, we had some power outages and the box died a horrible and nasty death. The filesystem was absolutely trashed. He had a backup of the files on the machine, but not of the configuration, which I spent considerable time on. After an unfortunately long experience with fsch, I was able to get almost all of the configuration files off the machine onto a floppy. I wiped the drives and did hardware tests on them. They are fine. This time, I got to pick the OS. I installed FreeBSD, even though I don't know much about it. (Or Suse, really) I have hopes that the softupdates feature on ufs would be more reliable and faster than ext2. Installing FreeBSD was enjoyable. Both he and I noticed an immediate speed increase. Anyway, here is the nature of my problem. The disk of configuration files that I made used the ext2 files system. I am now having trouble mounting it on the FreeBSD system. I made a mount point in /root: /root/floppy I originally tried: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /root/floppy Which gave me the following error message: mount: exec mount_ext not found in /sbin, /usr/sbin:No such file or directory. So, I figured that there was no support for ext2 in the default install, which I thought odd, so downloaded e2fsprogs-1.22. I installed it with pkg_add. After installing it, I realized that I had issued the improper mount command, so I immediately uninstalled with pkg_delete. I now tried: mount -t ext2fs /dev/fd0 /root/floppy This gives me the following message: ext2fs: vfsload(ext2fs): No such file or directory. Here are my questions: Did I screw something up when I installed e2fsprogs-1.22? Would my second mount command have worked if I hadn't installed and uninstalled it before trying -t ext2fs? Should I now go ahead an install e2fsprogs-1.22? Is there some aspect of mounting ext2 filesystems under FreeBSD which I am unaware of? Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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