mknod or devfs?

rose_bud4201 · 05-05-2004, 12:50 PM

Hi all

I'm not so new to Linux at this point, but I'm definitely new to FreeBSD. Yesterday I took a 7gb hunk of my hard drive and installed FBSD 5.2.1 on it on a whim, and so far I like what I see. However, I have several linux partitions I'd like to get at (mainly for various files (bookmarks, gaim away messages, mp3s)), and I can't seem to mount them. I get this when I try:

Code:

localhost# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s0 /mnt/slack
mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1s0: No such file or directory

If I do 'ls /dev | grep ad', the file appears to be there:

Code:

localhost# ls /dev | grep ad
ad0
ad0s1
ad0s2
ad0s2a
ad0s2b
ad0s2c
ad0s2d
ad1
ad1s1
ad1s2
ad1s5
ad1s6
ad1s7

The reading that I've done suggests that the device file is there, but it's not recognized/linked to the right partition/something else, and that I use either devfs or mknod to create it (depending on which website I read). But the man page for devfs is less than helpful, and since the file is actually _there_ in /dev, I'm not sure that mknod would help. Which is which, and what command should I use to get my partitions mounted??

Thanks!
Laura

chort · 05-05-2004, 02:31 PM

First, everything is /dev is a "device", not a file.

Second, just from looking at the output you posted, you're trying to mount a non-existent slice. Try ad1s1, since slices start at 1 not 0.

rose_bud4201 · 05-05-2004, 03:15 PM

Oops, sorry. I meant to fix that :-[
I did try ad1s1, and got the same error.

jcookeman · 05-06-2004, 12:58 PM

I figured you would get a kernel error, but did you enble ext2fs in the kernel?

Code:

options EXT2FS

Inexactitude · 05-06-2004, 08:52 PM

That bit doesn't come with the install kernel right? I tried to mount some ext3 filesystems, but couldn't get anything.

chort · 05-07-2004, 01:29 AM

Neither Free nor Open BSD have ext3fs support. You can still mount an ext3fs partition as ext2fs, but you'll lose the journaling feature (while it's mounted as ext2).