Troubles while mounting ext2 from 5.1-RELEASE

[Christian Laursen]

"Vincent Caron" <v.caron at zerodeux.net> writes:

> Bruce Evans said:
> >> >
> >> > # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/linux
> >> > ext2fs: /dev/ad0s2: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> Did you compile EXT2FS support into your kernel?
> 
> Awful shame on a FreeBSD newbie, I didn't. I naively thought it was in the GENERIC
> kernel, but I just saw he note about the 'risky' use of the ext2 module. Apologies.
> Building now bleeding edge kernel ...

Actually I think the main reason for not shipping it in binary form is that the
code is licensed under the GPL.

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    Christian Laursen