[gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems

2009-09-05 Thread James
Hello, I'm building up a P3 as a firewall, using 4 GB Compact Flash to IDE as the hard drive (SANDISK). I've done this before and it works great. The kernel is gentoo-30-r5 and it does not support EXT2. I have already formatted the Flash as EXT2: Disk /dev/hda: 4110 MB, 4110188544 bytes 128

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems

2009-09-05 Thread pk
James wrote: The kernel is gentoo-30-r5 and it does not support EXT2. I have already formatted the Flash as EXT2: Huh? Do you mean to say that CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set (when you compiled it) or that it's gone from the kernel source? I haven't followed the kernel mailing list closely but if

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems

2009-09-05 Thread Dale
pk wrote: James wrote: The kernel is gentoo-30-r5 and it does not support EXT2. I have already formatted the Flash as EXT2: Huh? Do you mean to say that CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set (when you compiled it) or that it's gone from the kernel source? I haven't followed the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems

2009-09-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 05 September 2009 13:55:40 pk wrote: Huh? Do you mean to say that CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set (when you compiled it) or that it's gone from the kernel source? It's certainly in my 2.6.30-gentoo-r6: $ grep EXT2 /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash drive and file systems

2009-09-05 Thread pk
Dale wrote: I just checked and ext2 option is there in menuconfig. Here is the options available: Yep, that's basically what I was trying to say, in my own convoluted way... I haven't heard about ext2 (and as someone else pointed out ext3 is basically ext2 with journalling so that would be