On 12 Oct 2009 at 12:44, walter harms wrote:

Date sent:              Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:44:15 +0200
From:                   walter harms <[email protected]>
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To:                     "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]>
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Subject:                Re: Does busybox mount support ext4

> 
> 
> Michael D. Setzer II schrieb:
> > I had a user of my g4l project ask about support for the ext4 partitions.
> > The user wasn't fully clear on what method. I know that the ext4 partition 
> > can 
> > be backed up to an ftp or other remote mount or local disk or partition 
> > that 
> > has a supported partitions. But I did once try to mount an ext4 partition, 
> > and 
> > the busybox mount couldn't mount it. I then just reformated the partition 
> > to 
> > ext3 and it worked fine. Don't know if it is support not yet added, or if 
> > some 
> > helper file needs to be added?
> > 
> > Since the main ext4 parition is an LVM partition that I've not figured out 
> > how 
> > to easily mount, it is not a big issue. 
> > 
> 
> 
> hello,
> busybox will exec mount.ext4 (See discussion: Re: Silent failure of busybox 
> mount for unknown fs type few days ago).
> therefore if you have mount.ext4 it will work.
> 

Thanks for the quick reply. Any ideal on were mount.ext4 can be found. I've 
searched my Fedora 11 machine, and did a search thru the repo and no 
luck. Done a google search and haven't found a download site.



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