Mounting ext3 problem

Sasa Stupar sasa at stupar.homelinux.net
Fri Sep 30 23:40:04 PDT 2005



--On 30. september 2005 23:22 -0400 nawcom <nawcom at nawcom.com> wrote:

> ext3 is compatible w/ext2 when the dirty bit is not set. When
> it is set (one common reason is the filesystem not being correctly
> unmounted), journal rollback is necessary which only ext3 can handle.
>
> thats why running fsck_ext2fs on the partition should take care of the
> issues.
>
> it doesn't mean your partition is actually "dirty", its just that freebsd
> doesn't (usually) attempt to mount partitions that were incorrectly
> unmounted.
>
> Let me know if it works. If you dont have ext2 support in fsck yet - you
> can find the source in /usr/ports/sysutils/fsck_ext2fs
>
> -Ben


I can't find that port. I have cvsup my ports and I have even searched on 
the FreeBSD home page of ports collection but it didn't find it. Are you 
sure about the name?

Sasa


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