A how-to guide which you might wish to use for freebsd advocacy

[Julian H. Stacey]

"Jukka A. Ukkonen" wrote freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org:
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> https://www.facebook.com/notes/jukka-ukkonen/upgrading-the-storage-disk-to-finnsat-fh05-hdr-digital-tv-receiver-while-retaini/10208639116987804
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> Feel free to publish the link on the freebsd web site or otherwise
> distribute it further.

I added cc: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org as it's about file systems & Ext2 & offsets.

(BTW I have no facebook login, so can assure readers Jukka's
page is public, no fbook login needed to access URL)

An extract re FS.

] FreeBSD will by default not accept the Finnsat generated partition
] for mounting. The trick is that Finnsat creates partitions with
] slack alignment. FreeBSD knows that a live ext2fs has to be a
] multiple of 4kB, 4096 bytes in size, i.e. 8 disk blocks, 8*512
] bytes. If the partition size is not perfectly aligned, FreeBSD does
] not allow read-write mount to an ext2fs instance. With all likelihood
] it might be a broken file system. Why should FreeBSD help making
] things worse?
] 
] So, you will have to adjust the partition size such that its length
] will be a multiple of 8 disk blocks. The tool for this is gpart
] (geom partition) which both modifies the partition tables and shows
] their contents. First use the command

Thanks Jukka,

I've bcc'd a friend who I discussed Humax TV recorders with a while
back, on similar issues, some time when I'm visiting the town where
my 3 Humax owner friends are, I hope to find time to experiment
with my USB to SATA converter.

This thread is archived here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2016-August/004619.html
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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2016-August/date.html

Cheers,
Julian
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