can't mount a logical ext3 partition

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Kevin Wortman wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed 5.0-RELEASE, and I have been having trouble mounting my Linux
> /home partition.  It is a logical ext3 partition, which Linux called
> /dev/hda7 .  I've been getting the following error:
>
> # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s7 /mnt
> ext2fs: /dev/ad0s7: No such file or directory
>
> But the device is there, as evidenced by
>
> # ls -l /dev/ad0s7
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,   7 Apr 28 17:20 /dev/ad0s7
>
> In fact all the slice/partition devices I'd expect are present, so it would
> seem that the kernel is reading the entire partition table correctly.
>
> I read through the archives, and the consensus seems to be that ext3 and ext2
> filesystems should be interchangeable.  So I don't think that's the issue.
>
> Any ideas?

what about your kernel?
does it have the line:

options EXT2FS

?



>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Wortman
>
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