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Re: Can HURD read Linux fs's?



On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 07:54:31AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> My system was built up with pre 2.2 kernels and so the partitions are not
> formatted with the sparse_super option.  HURD does not read them.

This is unhelpful. You should always report what exactly you tried and what
the error message was.

> Question, will the HURD read Linux fs's if they are formatted with the
> sparse_super option?  ie, is it worth while reformatting before I run out 
> of space to do it?

The Hurd should be able to read all your ext2fs partitions that are below
1GB in size.

Marcus



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