Problem mounting EXT2FS

Gonzalo Nemmi gnemmi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 22:31:16 UTC 2009


On Monday 24 August 2009 6:44:24 pm Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
> True you are right... I was using the incorrect syntax and the
> incorrect word hehehhe
>
> well I did try as well using the correct procedure:
>
> Thats the result (mounted but not accesible)
>
> [root@ /media/DATOSWIN]# mount
> /dev/ad8s1a on / (ufs, local)
> devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
> /dev/ad8s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad8s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ad8s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> /dev/ntfs/DATOSWIN on /media/DATOSWIN (ntfs, local, nosuid)
> [root@ /media/DATOSWIN]# *mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad6s1 /ext2*
> [root@ /media/DATOSWIN]# cd /ext2
> *bash: cd: /ext2: Not a directory*
> [root@ /media/DATOSWIN]# ls -la /ext2
> *ls: /ext2: Bad file descriptor*
> [root@ /media/DATOSWIN]#
>

Here's the problem:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/124621

Here's how to solve it:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=912&highlight=ext2fs

> 2009/8/24 Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
>
> > Maybe just malquoted, but...
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:20:29 +0000, Jeronimo Calvo <
> >
> > jeronimocalvop at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > # mount -t extfs2 /dev/ad6s1 /ext2
> > > mount: /dev/ad6s1 : Operation not supported by device
> >
> > The command should include -t ext2fs, not extfs2, as far as I
> > remember. I haven't run Linux for almost 10 years now...
> >
> > > I tried several times, with not luck, one of those times i was
> > > able to
> >
> > mount
> >
> > > it, but not to access it, when i tried to cd /ext2 (folder when
> > > is
> >
> > mounted)
> >
> > > system tells me that ext2 is not a folder...
> >
> > There are no "folders" in the UNIX file system hierarchy. The
> > things you're mentioning are called directories. I know, that's
> > "just" terminology, but it's important to use the correct words
> > context-wise. You don't call the files "sheets of paper", do you?
> > :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Polytropon
> > Magdeburg, Germany
> > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>
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