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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:26:02 -0400
From:      Ray Kohler <ray@rjk191.rh.psu.edu>
To:        "Ian T. Saint-Evens" <isaint@iansaintevens.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem mounting Linux Partition
Message-ID:  <20000406132602.A3558@rjk191.rh.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004060134180.9096-100000@www.iansaintevens.com>; from isaint@iansaintevens.com on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:43:21AM -0700
References:  <20000406042740.A2944@rjk191.rh.psu.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004060134180.9096-100000@www.iansaintevens.com>

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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:43:21AM -0700, Ian T. Saint-Evens wrote:
> I am sure that this has already been anwered, so I apologize in
> advance!  But it seems when I try to mount an EXT2 partition, it won't
> happen unless I do it read-only.  I have the option in the kernel setup,
> so what else could it be??  The error says,
> 
> mount r/w denied due to unsupported optional features.

The code for the EXT2 filesystem is rather old and not so stable
any more, due to its not being used much by developers. Mounting
EXT2 r/w appears to have been completely disabled, so innocent users
like yourself won't shoot yourselves in the foot.
I could be very wrong about this, but I seem to remember this being
discussed somewhere.

-- 
Ray Kohler <rjk191@psu.edu>
FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve
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