Re: Can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it ?
i dont know but i've always used mke2fs to format a linux ext2 drive
i see mke2fs and mkfs.ext2 are 2 different binarys on my debian 2.1
server. try usin mke2fs instead of mkfs.ext2
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, shaul wrote:
> I can not mount an ext2 file system rw immediately after creating it. What am
> I doing wrong ?
>
> [03:41:08 shaul]# cfdisk -P s /dev/hda
> Partition Table for /dev/hda
>
> First Last
> # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags
> -- ------- -------- --------- ------ --------- ---------------------- ---------
> 1 Primary 0 1024127 63 1024128 FAT16 (06) Boot (80)
> 2 Primary 1024128 2503871 0 1479744 Linux (83)
>
> [03:43:11 shaul]# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda2
> mke2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> 92544 inodes, 184968 blocks
> 9248 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> 6 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 15424 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 32768, 98304, 163840
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>
> [03:44:35 shaul]# mount -t ext2 -o rw /dev/hda2 /mnt
> EXT2-fs: 03:02: couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> [03:50:37 shaul]# mount -t ext2 -o ro /dev/hda2 /mnt
>
> [03:50:42 shaul]# mount | grep /mnt
> /dev/hda2 on /mnt type ext2 (ro)
>
> [03:50:52 shaul]# ls /mnt
> lost+found
>
> [03:51:44 shaul]# umount /mnt
>
> [03:53:39 shaul]# fsck.ext2 /dev/hda2
> e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/hda2: clean, 11/92544 files, 2917/184968 blocks
>
>
>
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.15-3
> Severity: normal
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586
> unknown
>
> Versions of the packages e2fsprogs depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
>
> Package: mount
> Version: 2.9w-3
> Severity: normal
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586
> unknown
>
> Versions of the packages mount depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
>
>
>
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