On 2011-08-21 17.20, Damon Getsman wrote:
> I've been looking through the FAQs and some on the forums, and I've come up
> with the conclusion that I'm not able to mount a linux ext4fs partition on
> my OpenBSD 4.9 system due to the fact that ext4fs isn't supported
> [allegedly]. I've even tried using MAKEDEV to rebuild the device /dev/wd1i
> and /dev/rwd1i to no avail. I still get the issue that a block device is
> required. Disklabel, of course, shows the partition as being there and
> being ext2fs.
FYI, MAKEDEV has no bearing on your problem, as you figured out yourself.
Regarding the "block device is required" error, are you sure you used the
/dev/wd1i and not the /dev/rwd1i partition?
> Anyway, if I'm correct in all of those assumptions, I guess what I'm
> wondering is if there are any other utilities for [at least] reading an
> ext4fs. I've got several terrabytes of information that I'd really like to
> at least be able to serve to the other machines on my network from this
> machine. If there are not, are there plans for adding this support in the
> near future at all?
I'm not familiar with ext4, but as Christian Barthel suggested it might be
possible to mount it specifying ext2fs as the file system type, but if you
do so, make sure to mount it read-only. It might ruin your file system (and
your day) otherwise.
Otherwise, it sounds more like what you need is NFS... or is the machine
you're trying to do this on a dual-boot machine and you want access to the
file system in question from both environments? In that case, I suggest you
reformat the file system to ufs which would be usable by both systems.
Regards,
/Benny
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