On 11/12/12 18:24, David Guntner wrote:
William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote:On 11/12/12 16:27, David Guntner wrote:William A. Mahaffey III grabbed a keyboard and wrote:ad[0,6]s1 are the 2 offending partitions. Also, in the interlude, I went ahead& e2fsck'ed both partitions, both came back w/ '***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****', for different reasons, but nothing tragic, 2 lost/dup nodes on 1, none on the other ....Question: What does your /etc/mtab file show for the /dev/ad4s3 mount?[root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 05:22 PM] 824 # cat mtab /dev/ad4s3 / ufs rw 0 0 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 linprocfs /proc linprocfs rw 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0 fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0 /dev/ad4s1 /boot ext2fs rw 0 0 [root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 05:23 PM] 825 # The installer made me format the root partition as UFS, I tried ext2/3, & it wouldn't let me proceed .... I don't know if that's a clue or not, who knows .... I know almost for certain that the *BSD's do not support ext2/3/4 for writing, only for reading, I don't know why (I'm an end user, not a kernel hacker), so I am uncertain if the kfreeBSD does in fact fully support ext2/3/4 for full use ....Ok, try this just for grins. Edit your /etc/mtab file, and add the following line: /dev/ad6s1 /mnt/ad6s1 ext2fs ro 0 0 (I'm following your example from ad4s1; ordinarily with a Linux kernel that would just be "ext2"). Also, you can try "rw" instead of "ro" if you want to see if it can write - again, since your (I'm assuming working) entry for ad4s1 has "rw" on an ext2 file system. Then as root do a "mount /mnt/ad6s1" and see if that mounts the partition. If it does, then a "ls -la /mnt/ad6s1" should show you the contents.
Nogo, vi griped that the file was read-only when I opened the file (which I thought to start with) .... I tried to save it w/ ':wq!' from vi after the changes & got more croaking (it said the file had been written since I edited it), so I chickened out .... The more I think about, the more I think ext2/3/4 is *not* supported by the kernel .... grub uses the boot partition (ext2fs), then boots the actual kernel, which wants UFS on its root drive, & I am almost certain that the *BSD's don't support ext2/3/4 for writing, only for reading ....
One other question here, and sorry if you've already answered this, but is there some specific reason why you want to run Debian with a FreeBSD kernel instead of the standard Linux one? (Just a point of curiosity.)I have installed *BSD's at various times in the past,& I always noticed the admirably small RAM footprint& the austere # of system process running around. The CentOS 5.7 that was powering this system before its root drive croaked had 250-ish processes running just keeping itself organized (runlevel 3, X, no desktops, NFS, Samba,& whatever else it wanted, I did no customizing of the install), was using 600-700 MB of RAM (free -m), w/ only 2 GB on the system (older mbd, stuck at 2 GB). I had OpenBSD on there a couple of years ago, admittedly w/ no NFS, also no '-rw' support for ext2/3/4, which is why I went to CentOS, but is was using about 40 MB of RAM,& about 30 processes total. This install is similar so far, only about 30 processes total, 125-ish MB of RAM .... Still no NFS& Samba, which will no doubt bump up those totals, but still .... I used to run SGI's, Octanes, IRIX 6.5.30,& they only had about 60 processes total for the OS, w/ desktop, NFS, Samba, etc., about 40 MB of RAM used .... I like lean& light when it should be that way .... it's a fetish ....In my currently playing around with Debian 6.0.6, I personally don't find it to be all that "fat," but I guess that's just me - to each their own, I guess. :-) However, your particular fetish in this case may well keep you from accessing those partitions - at least, for now.... One thing of note I found at Wikipedia (ya, I know... :-) ) was the following: "The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD base system is fully functional, but there still a few major bugs that need to be fixed and packages that need to be ported to the system. The kfreebsd-* ports of Debian were included with Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) as a 'technology preview'." This may be one of the "few major bugs" that they refer to. And if it truly *is* in a "technology preview" state, I expect there will still be things missing - this may well be among those things. Guess we'll get a good idea if the mount suggestion I make above doesn't work. :-) --Dave
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