Mounting a linux partition under freebsd
Björn König
bjoern.koenig at spray.se
Thu Dec 1 07:17:40 PST 2005
Guillaume R. schrieb:
> I can't mount a linux partition under freebsd with the -t ext3fs
> option could someone explain me how I could mount a linux partition
> under freebsd?
FreeBSD has limited support for ext2, therefore you can mount it as ext2
filesystem only. You can "convert" the filesystem between ext2 and ext3
without data loss by just executing fsck. Run fsck.ext2 from the
"e2fsprogs" package first. Now you can mount it with mount_ext2fs and
access data. Finally after you have unmounted it you need run fsck.ext3
to recreate the filesystem journal.
> I got an other question: how could I obtain a human readable output of
> fdisk to know the content in terms of partition of my disk?
In case you get used to use linux fdisk, you might get lucky with the
ncurses based program cfdisk-linux from the "linuxfdisk" package. ;-)
Björn
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