At 17:44 Uhr +0200 12.07.1998, brian wildasinn wrote:

> mount_ext2fs: /dev/sd1a on /sd1a: Operation not supported by device
>
>  
>
>... when attempting to use mount_ext2fs. Anyone knows what's up with this
>filesytem
>tool "mount_ext2fs" for working with linux filesystems ?
>

What does "disklabel sd1" tell you?

The MacBSD kernel evaluates the native Macintosh partition table and fakes
a NetBSD disklabel from it. There is definitely no code in there to label a
partition as "ext2fs" or whatever, so if mount_ext2fs(8) looks at the
partition type, it sees "4.2BSD" and you lose.

Yet another reason to implement native disklabels...

	hauke



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