Problem mounting EXT2FS

[Jeronimo Calvo]

Actually, im just compile it and restart it... seems to be working fine
now...

By the way... who do i do that?? is that necessary?

cheers!

2009/8/25 Mark Stapper <stark at mapper.nl>

> Jeronimo Calvo wrote:
> > Hi folks, im migrating from Linux to BSD, and i found my first problem...
> > First of all, i did save my /home from my old Linux distribution on
> another
> > HD, ext2fs partition /dev/ad6s1... I can correctly see the drive from
> > sysinstall.
> >
> > I read about compiling the KERNEL in order to add Ext2fs support under
> > Freebsd, wich I did... Adding the line:
> >
> >  Quote:
> >   options EXT2FS
> > looking like this:
> >
> >  Quote:
> >   options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
> > options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.
> > options STOP_NMI # Stop CPUS using NMI instead of IPI
> > options AUDIT # Security event auditing
> > #options KDTRACE_FRAME # Ensure frames are compiled in
> > *options EXT2FS*
> > #options KDTRACE_HOOKS # Kernel DTrace hooks
> > After this i recompiled the kernel and installed...
> >
> >  Quote:
> >   # uname -a
> > FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 24 18:59:43 UTC 2009
> > iscariote@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL amd64
> > Well... everything should be ready now to mount my ext2fs partition...
> Using
> > the following command...
> >
> >  Quote:
> >   # 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)
> > # mount -t extfs2 /dev/ad6s1 /ext2
> > mount: /dev/ad6s1 : Operation not supported by device
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > any ideas???
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!
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> Did you recompile world as well?
> You might also want to install sysutils/e2fsprogs.
> I have not done this myself yet though...
> Hope it helps.
> Mark
>
>