Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>]

On 11/12/12 21:50, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:17:19PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote:
> > > Are you able to mount those filesystems as ext2? Any ext3 filesystem
> > > should be mountable as ext2.
> > Tried it:
> >
> > [root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 02:12 PM] 802 # mount -t ext3
> > /dev/ad6s1  /mnt
> > mount: /dev/ad6s1 : No such device
> >
> > [root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 02:13 PM] 803 # mount -t ext2
> > /dev/ad6s1  /mnt
> > mount: /dev/ad6s1 : No such device
> Okay, I loaded up debian-kfreebsd in a VM.
>
> When I tried the commands you gave above I get the same error. Also if I
> try '-t ext3fs' I get the same error. However, with '-t ext2fs',
> everything works as expected.
>
> This test, and the fact that there is no reference to ext3 in "man
> mount", leads me to believe that ext3 is *not* supported in
> debian-kfreebsd. You should be able to mount the filesystems as ext2,
> but you will lose the journalling capabilities of ext3.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom


*Aaaaaaaaaaaaacccccckkkkk* !!!! So it's a typo ?!?!?! I was using 
ext2/3/4, not ext2/3/4*fs* !!!! I just tried & it mounted .... & when I 
try ext3fs, it is *nogo* !!!! Sooooooo .... ext3/4 apparently *not* 
supported under kfreeBSD ....

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