On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:20:58AM -0500, Damon Getsman wrote: > I've been looking through the FAQs and some on the forums, and I've come up > with the conclusion that I'm not able to mount a linux ext4fs partition on > my OpenBSD 4.9 system due to the fact that ext4fs isn't supported > [allegedly]. I've even tried using MAKEDEV to rebuild the device /dev/wd1i > and /dev/rwd1i to no avail. I still get the issue that a block device is > required. Disklabel, of course, shows the partition as being there and > being ext2fs. > > Anyway, if I'm correct in all of those assumptions, I guess what I'm > wondering is if there are any other utilities for [at least] reading an > ext4fs. I've got several terrabytes of information that I'd really like to > at least be able to serve to the other machines on my network from this > machine. If there are not, are there plans for adding this support in the > near future at all? >
I am not quite sure (not an ext4 user) but you can mount ext4 the same way, you mount ext3 or ext2. mount -t ext2fs <dev> <mountpoint> Maybe, it's dangerous and should be avoided (ext4 is a journaling filesystem, ext2 not!). So, be careful! -- Christian Barthel Public-Key: http://bc.user-mode.org/bc.asc Mail: b...@nyx.user-mode.org Web: http://bc.user-mode.org
