ext2 or ext3 usage

Matthias Rampke matthias.rampke at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 9 02:25:47 PST 2014


Hi,

this may have changed somewhat recently, but last time I attempted to
use ext2/3 under *BSD (which AFAIK mostly share the driver) the
situation was:

* ext3 won't work
* ext2 created with the default mke2fs settings won't work (unsupported options)
* very basic, oldskool ext2 might work, but I haven't found the right
settings yet

I didn't pursue it further at the time.

Best,
Matthias

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Andrey Oktyabrskiy <ano at bestmx.net> wrote:
> Good day.
>
> Is it possible to mount ext2 or (better) ext3 FS in r/w mode under dfly?
> I've tried to mount both with the same result:
> $ sudo mount_ext2fs /dev/da0s2 /UNIT
> mount_ext2fs: /dev/da0s2: Invalid argument
> $ sudo fdisk /dev/da0
> ******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
> parameters extracted from device are:
> cylinders=121126 heads=256 sectors/track=63 (16128 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=121126 heads=256 sectors/track=63 (16128 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165,(DragonFly/FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 2079, size 134204931 (65529 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>         beg: cyl 0/ head 33/ sector 1;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63
> The data for partition 2 is:
> sysid 131,(Linux filesystem)
>     start 134219776, size 1819303936 (888332 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63;
>         end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
>
> What I do wrong?


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