Vincent Stemen wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2001 02:36, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > I made 18 ext2 cdroms in October 1998 using an old (new at the time) Red
> > Hat system. Now I can't mount them. e2fsck shows no problems. I also
> > can dd them to a file, then mount the file. But I want to be able to
> > simply access them directly. Current system: RH 7.1 with all updates.
> >
> > Sorry, I can't remember the exact command I used to create the images.
> >
> > I also want to better understand the output of dumpe2fs, and how to
> > relate this to mount.
> >
>
> I think you are running into a block size issue. I notice your fs
> block size is only 1024. See if you can mount it on an IDE CDROM
> drive.
I have tried that before on one RH 7.1 machine and got quite a different
error message (but it still wouldn't mount).
> I ran into the same problem with file systems with a block
> size of 1024 when using the ide-scsi module because it saw the device
> bs as being 4096. You cannot mount a file system with block size
> smaller than the device.
I think you have hit the nail on the head. I am not sure how to change the
device block size of my CDROM.
Any suggestions VERY welcome!
I will experiment some more with other IDE CDROMs. But as things are, it
seems that the easiest way to read the data is to dd it to a file and mount
it. And I thought using ext2 would give me guarantees of being accessible
from Linux!!! I am backing up onto --multi-volume tar files on iso9660 file
systems now.
> I would unload the the ide-scsi modules and
> mount it as /dev/hdxx and it mounted just fine. I started specifying
> the bs to be 4k when creating the file system to backup to CD and the
> problem went away. The error message was deceiving. I did not
> discover what it was until I left X windows and tried it from the
> console and finally got an error relating to block size.
>
> - Vincent Stemen
Thank you very much for your helpful reply, Vincent.
> > $ dumpe2fs -h /dev/scd0
> > dumpe2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> > Filesystem volume name: <none>
> > Last mounted on: <not available>
> > Filesystem UUID: 7eb1b040-59f7-11d2-9e35-002018530df2
> > Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
> > Filesystem revision #: 0 (original)
> > Filesystem features: (none)
> > Filesystem state: clean
> > Errors behavior: Continue
> > Filesystem OS type: Linux
> > Inode count: 166624
> > Block count: 665600
> > Reserved block count: 33280
> > Free blocks: 142206
> > Free inodes: 153910
> > First block: 1
> > Block size: 1024
> > Fragment size: 1024
> > Blocks per group: 8192
> > Fragments per group: 8192
> > Inodes per group: 2032
> > Inode blocks per group: 254
> > Last mount time: Fri Oct 2 21:06:45 1998
> > Last write time: Fri Oct 2 23:53:28 1998
> > Mount count: 3
> > Maximum mount count: 20
> > Last checked: Fri Oct 2 20:57:46 1998
> > Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
> > Next check after: Wed Mar 31 20:57:46 1999
> > Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
> > Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
> >
> > (I originally sent this to the Red Hat list, but there was no response).
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