Hello!
So can anybody give me some advice on this? Should I really delete
the existing file system and create a new one with the 'sparse_super'
flag off?
Thanks.
Vladimir
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 20:36:15 +0300
v...@ukr.net wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm new (well, actually, very very very new) to DragonFlyBSD and
> currently doing my first steps with it. I have Ext2 and Ext3
> partitions on my HDD (created under GNU/Linux) and I cannot use them
> under DragonFlyBSD. The problem is that when I try to mount any of
> them, I get the following error message:
>
> # mount /dev/ad4s3 /mnt/data/
> mount: /dev/ad4s3 on /mnt/data: incorrect super block
>
> Or if I state the FS type explicitly, I get this:
>
> # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4s3 /mnt/data/
> WARNING: R/W mount of #ad/0x40002 denied due to unsupported
> optional features
> ext2fs: /dev/ad4s3: Invalid argument
>
> The only mode I can mount these file systems in is read-only mode.
> However, the file systems are not usable in this mode either, because
> I can only list the root catalog of the corresponding FS. Any attempt
> to list other catalogs or read some files leads to the following
> error message on the screen:
>
> and a system reboot.
>
> I searched over Internet for a similar issue and found only one sane
> article mentioning this problem
> ( http://onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/16/Big_Scary_Daemons.html ). Its
> author tells that the root of the problem is the 'sparse_super' flag
> set on the Ext2 file system and suggest to turn this flag off:
>
> tune2fs -s off /dev/sda3
>
> I tried it under my GNU/Linux system, but it says only:
>
> Clearing filesystem feature 'sparse_super' not supported.
>
> and does not do the job.
> So now I just do not know what to do. How cat I use my existing
> Ext2/Ext3 file systems on DragonFlyBSD? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
> Vladimir
>
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