If you are one of those unlucky bastards this post presents the required steps on how to patch the FreeBSD 7.2 kernel module that mounts ext2/ext3 filesystems.
First let's begin by installing the sysutils/e2fsprogs application that provides tune2fs which will allow us to confirm that the ext2/ext3 filesystem was in fact created with inode 256. Assuming that the target slice is in the /dev/ad4 disk:
- % su
- # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs
- # make install clean
- # rehash
- # fdisk /dev/ad4
******* Working on device /dev/ad4 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=395136 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=395136 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native)
start 63, size 80262 (39 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 4/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 130 (0x82),(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
start 80325, size 1012095 (494 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 5/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 67/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native)
start 1092420, size 10008495 (4886 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 68/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 690/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 15 (0x0f),(Extended DOS (LBA))
start 11100915, size 350907795 (171341 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 691/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
- # tune2fs -l /dev/ad4s1 | grep -i 'inode size'
Next let's fetch the patch:
- % wget http://pflog.net/~floyd/ext2fs.diff
- % wget http://pastebin.ca/raw/1280738
- # cd /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs
- # patch < /path/to/patch
- # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ext2fs
- # make depend ; make obj ; make ; make ; make install ; make unload ; make load ; make clean
Having the new module loaded you can now successfully mount your ext2/ext3 filesystem:
- # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad6s1 /mnt
References:
kern/124621: [ext3] [patch] Cannot mount ext2fs partition
man mount
sysutils/e2fsprogs
3 comments:
Thanks a lot for the instructions!
Glad it helped ;)
Take care.
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