Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick
The subject line is the question. I am not sure if it isn't working because I am using the wrong nomenclature for the file system I need to mount or if I need to do some more to the kernel which, right now, is just the standard FreeBSD generic build which usually has everything one normally needs.

Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to a member of this list who showed me what I was doing wrong. in an example, the command is mount -t ext2fs /dev/[yourstoragedevicename] /mnt I had originally been typing -t ext2 which equals nothing to FreeBSD. Martin McCormick ___

Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread Michael
Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to a member of this list who showed me what I was doing wrong. in an example, the command is mount -t ext2fs /dev/[yourstoragedevicename] /mnt I had originally been typing -t ext2 which equals nothing to FreeBSD. Martin McCormick ___

Re: Can FreeBSD6.3 Generic Kernels Mount a Linux EXT3 FS?

2008-09-08 Thread wsw
The GENERIC kernel maybe have no ext2fs module. You can install it by: cd /usr/src/sys/module/ext2fs && make && make install clean and load the module kldload ext2fs If you do not have mount_ext2fs tool: cd /usr/src/sbin/mount_ext2fs && make && make install clean then, try to mount the ext2 parti